Thank you for your encouraging comments Kim,  your watercolours are wonderful! :-))

Kim, I have just perused your beautiful paintings.  I wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed them all. From vibrancy to subtlety, you captured it all.  You have such a wonder talent!  I found your paintings to be a feast for the eye.  I will continue to watch your postings! 

Thanks Kim, looks like its only you and i up on this side of the pond! 

Thanks for you encouraging comments Kim, its a very steep learning curve this painting lark :-)

Thanks for your lovely comments re pandora and Molly Kim:-)

Thanks Kim John, I started with watercolors so I love looking at your application of watercolors

Kim, Many thanks.Sometimes, I  launch too far with my colour. Many friends here tried to hold me a bit. I need more experience through the practice to handle the subtle relationship in a propriate degree and balance as you are doing. All your paintings are so beautiful!!!

Thanks for your comment re watercolour paper, I do have plenty of 300gsm plus a pad of 450gsm but must admit to being rather hesitant of watercolour s have done a lot of gouache and love using that medium.  When you stretch your paper do you tape it firstbefore wetting it, I sometimes think I am doing it incorrectly, that's probably why I tend to use acrylic and oils, think I am a bit of a coward!!!

Thank you Kim for all your help with stretching paper etc. have printed out your instructions and am going to try doing water colours again, your beautiful paintings have given me inspiration to again try my hand at watercolours. I have some 100% cotton paper which is 400gsm plus heaps of 300gsm paper so hopefully will have something to post soon.  Once again thankyou.  cheers

I really appreciated all your comments on my portraits, Kim.  I spent most of my life wishing I were an artist, never knowing I had the latent talent to do it.  The year I turned 59 I decided it was "now or never" and jumped in.  I began taking lessons at a local Hobby Lobby, and within a year was doing portraits independently.  In these courses I am stepping out of my comfort zone to try some new things.  Oils are also out of my comfort zone, though I have done some work with them in the past.

Thank you so much for your guidance on watercolor.. i will be getting the paper you suggest here in the next week or so.. i cant wait. :D

Thank you for dropping in on my Lake Bled Kim. I love your rendition of Picadilly circus and admire your attention to detail. Excellent

Cheers, Jen

haha.. good point!

Thanks Kim! I'll have to be courageous! I still don't know what my style is... ! There must be a kind of trend which I am following and I am not aware of. I try to paint exactly what I see, but it NEVER comes out that way. It is really frustrating... but now I am trying to accept that fact, and I am  trying to paint in a 'digestible' way....