A Watercolor Portrait Challenge, Monsoons and Sunsets in Southern Arizona!

Vail, AZ 

7 Sept, 2022

30 Days 30 Faces - in Watercolor.

30 days, 30 videos from accomplished artists showing their process and techniques for doing portraits in watercolor.  A LOT of work.  But, portraiture is really my favorite.  I'm trying to loosen up my painting, but, it's a real challenge for my relentlessly literal left brain!

Anyway, here a a few of my favorites from that month.

I like the looseness of this one!

I love doing older women (and men)

My favorite - a bit looser!

 

Monsoons bring even more spectacular sunsets

I love the drama of the monsoon thunderstorms - sudden billowing thunderclouds, massive thunder and lightening and then drenching, flooding downpours (for max 20 min) - so different than the day-after-day gray skies and gentle rains of Oregon.  While this year, I've had lots of gray days with on-and-off sprinkling as the big storms skirted my location, I did get a few big rains!

Around the house and across the driveway the water flows . . .

 

Normally dry wash across my street!

My side yard as the water continues over to the neighbors . . . 

Despite grates in the wall for drainage, the back yard often floods for a couple hours.

And then there are the sunsets!!

Simply stunning!!