by Kathy Collins | Mar 13, 2018 | Main |
Right now I have an exhibit at the Lake Forest Park Town Center Gallery and it is interesting to see which watercolors appeal most to people. i could have sold a certain “horse painting” 2 – 3 times at the Opening. Why? Maybe because of the colors....
by Kathy Collins | Feb 13, 2018 | Main |
In this watercolor i tried to achieve the misty look for which the Washington Coast is famous. The key to doing this is to keep your colors grayed down by mixing opposites on the color wheel. For example i used burnt sienna and ultramarine blue (a muted orange and a...
by Kathy Collins | Jan 6, 2018 | Main |
That’s how long it will take the Voyager Spacecraft now heading out of our solar system to reach the next star. I have been watching the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s wonderful videos about space and time and was amazed by this fact. Did it make me...
by Kathy Collins | Dec 2, 2017 | Main |
So far Washington’s snow is staying in the mountains where it belongs. But in my warm studio I pulled out some photos from years back when the white stuff blanketed the Trail near my house. I played with the composition, in fact, turning the path into an icy...
by Kathy Collins | Nov 3, 2017 | Main |
The rains have returned to the Seattle area just in time, because I had planned on painting wet street scenes. I pulled out photos of streets with back-lit buildings and people. I love back-lighting because it gives me an opportunity to create special effects like...
