Category: Ray Hendershot

Ray Hendershot Exercise: Lighthouse #1

Apr 8, 2021

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in Epiphany, Exercises, Landscape, Ray Hendershot, Rocks, Sky, Successful Paintings, Trees, Water, Water Color, Year 3

I have been absolutely stuck for the past few weeks. Every time I sit down to paint, nothing comes to mind. Nothing inspires me, I have no intention. But, just as an act of discipline, I paint anyway. The results are nothing to write about. It’s all very ugly, muddy, cliche… just nothing that I’m…
Ray Hendershot Exercise, Fieldstone Building: #1

Oct 12, 2020

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in Achitecture, Epiphany, Landscape, Ray Hendershot, Successful Paintings, Trees, Water Color, Year 3

Yet another successful painting from Ray Hendershot’s “Texture Techniques for Winning Watercolors.” I was getting really down on myself recently because the paintings I was making were all turning out muddy and gross. This exercise helped me learn patience. The more I paint through this book, the more I learn about how to rely on…
Ray Hendershot Exercise, Clapboard Siding: #1

Oct 12, 2020

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in Epiphany, Exercises, Landscape, Ray Hendershot, Successful Paintings, Water Color, Year 3

This weekend I decided I would take my own advice, and paint from the book. I decided to paint from one of the books that I have because trying to learn from my own failures has been pretty discouraging. I’m only about a quarter of the way through Ray Hendershot’s “Texture Techniques for Winning Watercolors”…
Catching Up

Jul 14, 2020

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in Landscape, Ray Hendershot, Studies, Water Color

It’s been a while since I posted, because I haven’t been able to get the WordPress app to work. Today, I finally figured it out, so I’m just going to toss up photos of the paintings I have made in the down time, so I have them to look back at later.
Ray Hendershot Exercise: Birch Trees

May 26, 2020

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in Achitecture, Epiphany, Exercises, Landscape, Ray Hendershot, Trees, Water Color, Year 2

Tonight, I painted the next exercise in Ray Hendershot’s book. I don’t know why Birch trees feel like a very trite subject to me – but they do. I think every painting of birch trees is essentially the same thing – masked off trunks with something colorful or dark behind them. I think Ray Hendershot…
Ray Hendershot Exercise: Fully Foliated Trees

May 26, 2020

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in Exercises, Landscape, Ray Hendershot, Trees, Water Color, Year 2

The next exercise in Ray Hendershot’s “Texture Techniques for Winning Watercolors” is to paint fully foliated trees. This exercise demonstrates what appears to be a great strength of the pedagogy in this book. The distant trees exercise is useful for this exercise, but it isn’t necessary. Because Mr. Hendershot encourages us to paint loose representations…
Ray Hendershot Exercise: Distant Trees

May 15, 2020

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in Exercises, Failed Paintings, Landscape, Master Study, Ray Hendershot, Trees, Water Color, Year 2

I purchased a book by Ray Hendershot entitled “Texture Techniques for Winning Watercolors.” I appreciate how Mr. Hendershot manages to achieve the impression of a photorealistic image, but includes just enough Impressionism to give the composition a level of emotion that I feel photorealistic paintings often lack. (Steven Kozar does an excellent job of proving…