New Print - Tenderly

A dear stamping friend shared an enchanted picture of her grandson a few weeks ago, and it inspired a little study in my watercolor sketch book... which led to my first commissioned piece! This is a 5"x7" watercolor painting called "Tenderly". I'm so honored to preserve this special moment.

When I paint, I like sharing photos of the process on Facebook, and I always enjoy the responses - here are a few points of the process. Initial masking and color wash....

More detail, a salt wash, and some grass (if you look at the final painting, you can see that this went through a few changes along the way, and I should probably have waited to do some of the foreground until later in the process...) Those couple of pink spots are Magenta Nuance that jumped onto my paper - eek - that worked, though, to bring a little warmth to the water.

Removed the masking fluid and did a little additional masking/ negative painting in the foreground...

Added in detail to the folds of his little outfit...

The face took a lot of courage, so I saved it for last, and worked in very light, subtle layers.

Almost finished here - just a few final tweaks to the water after this!

As usual, if you'd like a copy, you can preorder here by clicking below, and I thank you kindly! Other prints are all in stock.

Have a wonderful week! We're doing year-end standardized testing this week and more packing, so... yippee!