8 x 10 inch Aquarelle #140 Cold Press (block)  -Ken Hotelling 1/2010

(From a photo taken from the back yard).

5×7 Fabriano Cold Press #140. From a photo at Laguna Beach, CA. -Ken-          (Note: Painting was done mostly upside down).

“War Dog” is a mixed media (watercolor and guache) painting that I did for a friend, based upon his photograph taken at the Gillespie Air Show this June.   I used guache for the smoke trailing from the SNJ-5 “War Dog” .  It was done on 9×12 inch hot press, #140 lb paper.  -Ken-

9 x 12 inch;  #140 Hot Press.

9 x 12 inch #140 Cold Press.  From a modified photo taken in aLaguna Beach cafe.

9 x 12 inch Hot Press #140.  This painting was inspired by a photograph taken at the end of 2008. Mesa Grande is a valley a few miles North of Santa Ysabel. I did a few different color washes to set the background.  The curving dirt road and the smaller tree branches were done with a rigger brush.  A fun scene to paint.  -Ken-

9 x 12 inch #140 Hot Press

(My wife’s 1963 Sunbeam Alpine)  -Ken-

9 x 12 inch #140 Cold Press

9 x 12 inch Hot Press #140   -Ken-

This 8×10 inch watercolor on #140 cold press was inspired by a photo I took in New Orleans a few years ago. I used the “direct” method where pigment is used straight out of the tube with little water to get the saturated  colors.  I like the abstract “feel” of this painting. -Ken-

8 x 10 inch watercolor - 140# hotpress. Painted from a photograph I took.  This was done as a holiday card assignment in the Fall ‘08 painting class.  -Ken-