Watchful..Watercolor…Texas Artist…Rae Andrews

 This was a lesson I just taught on Zoom in my Dancing Brushes 5 course.

Great fun ..

The image is 12” x 16”

$350 plus S/H

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Aussie Standoff..Watercolor.. Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

 I just finished this one and had a lot of fun. These birds are from my native country of Australia.. we have them in most areas of Australia.. I love them however they are noisy and can be very destructive.. 

The original image is available unframed.

$450 plus tax and Shipping

14” x 20” ( unframed) 

I do offer prints as well of this image through my Fine Art America print site.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/aussie-standoff-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

And don’t forget, I also offer online lessons on Zoom..

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Water Water Everywhere..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I am doing a demo today on my Dancing Brushes Zoom class and this is the subject.

 I love to paint water and cascading waterfalls are usually a very exciting lesson, so here goes.

I used masking fluid for this one, using a different approach for the water and the foliage. Great fun.

This image is 12" x 16" unframed

$350 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America

Please contact me through this blog or via my website for more information on my classes and workshops

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Poetry In Motion..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I am getting ready to begin my  third  Dancing Brushes Course online next week..

This course is  two months long.
We all have  a lot of fun and I am blessed to have so many eager students.

So this painting is similar to one of the Lesson plans I have worked out for my classes.

It’s a mixture of watercolor and Liquid Acrylics. I love mixing these two mediums.. 

This one is 16” x 20” 
On Arches CP Paper

Prints of this image will soon be available on Fine Art America.

Please contact me through this blog or via my website for more information on my classes and workshops

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Water Patterns..Watercolor ans Fluid Acrylics..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I just felt like playing today. 

This one began from nothing at all in mind, and I just experimented with Fluid Acrylics, and let them flow on the page, helped by my blow dryer.

I dried it completely then and began to find my lily shape into and over the paints. 

With negative painting I brought my flowers and lily pads into focus.
                                                                    Great fun.


                                                           12" x 16" unframed
                                                                 $350 Plus S/H

                                                           

             This image is also available in prints through Fine Art America.

      Rae also conducts online workshops called Dancing Brushes With Rae Andrews

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Rocks And Falls..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I am just trying a different twist on a waterfall painting. Thought I would incorporate a keyhole design.

This one is 16" x 20"
Watercolor on Arches CP paper
$450 Plus S/H


Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rocks-and-falls-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae teaches workshops in Europe and the USA 

She also conducts online lessons ..Dancing Brushes

For more info on the above please contact her through this block or her website
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Mixed Bag..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Getting ready to teach the last floral session in my online lessons ..Dancing Brushes.

Thought I would do something like this one, a ‘Mixed Bag’ of techniques.

Hope it doesn’t scare off my students! 

16” x 20”

Watercolor on Arches CP Paper

$450 plus  S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America

Rae teaches online lessons and workshops in Europe and the USA.

For more info please contact her through this blog or vie her website

raeandrews.com

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Here I Am ! Watercolor..Texas Artist...Rae Andrews

Here I Am ! is a watercolor on Arches CP paper.
I did this one as a demo on my online classes.

An exercise on leaving interesting negative spaces and using a limited palette of colors.

The students did amazing work! I was blown away.

This image is 12" x 16" unframed
$300 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/here-i-am-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae teaches workshops in the USA and Europe. Recently she began online classes as well.

For more info please contact her through this blog or her website 

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Sweet Nothings..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

 Just finished this one today in my isolation period of the Corona Virus.
I pray you are all safe and staying home.

This image is on Arches CP paper
16” x 20”
$500 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine a Art America.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sweet-nothings-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae conducts workshops in both Europe and the USA 
For more info please contact her on this blog or vie her website
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                                             Thanks for visiting

Hawaiian Stunners..Watercolor.. Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This is an unframed watercolor on Arches CP paper.

16' x 20'
$500 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America..
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/hawaiian-stunners-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae conducts online lessons and workshops both in Europe and the USA.

For more info please contact her through this blog or via her website

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Quiet Whisper..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This one just painted itself really..  I knew I was going to paint  flowers, but had no clue what type.
I stuck to a very limited palette and threw colors on my pre wet surface first. . Later I found where to place my flowers.

Quiet Whisper is an unframed watercolor.
16" x 20"
$500 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/quiet-whisper-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae teaches workshops in Europe and the USA. For more info please contact her through this blog or her website
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Hello Springtime..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This one is fresh off the easel. If this looks like a floral you would like to try, contact Rae for her online lessons, starting April 8th.

It's a watercolor on Arches CP paper
16" x 20" unframed 
$500 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/hello-springtime-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae conducts online classes and workshops in both Europe and America.
For more info please contact her through this blog or via her website 
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Sonata in Red and Green..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I did a YouTube video of the process with one. If you wish to see how it was painted, you can see that on my YouTube channel..Rae Andrews

This image is on Arches CP Paper and is presented unframed

16" x 20"

$500 Plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America..

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sonata-in-red-and-green-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae conducts workshops in both Europe and the USA

For more info please contact Rae through this blog or via her website..

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Cadenza..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I have done this image a few times before, using pastels and gouache and even another watercolor of parts of this scene.

I so rarely use masking fluid but decided to this time, not sure how I feel about the result.. I usually just free paint my water images leaving a lot of white paper showing.

Anyway, this is another way to attack this image..I hope you like it.

13.5” x 20” unframed

$500 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America.
Fine Art America

Thanks for visiting..

Rae teaches workshops in all mediums, in the USA and Europe.

If you are interested please contact her through this blog or her website..

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A Gentle Sway to the Left..Oil..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

.

And now for something completely different! Yep, I actually got out my poor old oil paints today and decided to break into them 'gently' as it's been a few years.

This is an oil panel, no idea what brand, I think it's one I gessoed myself eons ago.

I did tint the panel first with a magenta acrylic, and that is the color you see peeping through the oil overlays.

I love to work on a tinted surface, and mostly it's been with my pastel and watercolor/gouache paintings I admit. So why not my oils?

 I think I will try to do more of these smaller oils for a while, they are a challenge for me.. 

I love a challenge, don't you? I mean, we can get stagnated in our thoughts and practices in our art, (at least I do), and get stuck on things that feel safe for us.

Setting a challenge occasionally (with color, subject or medium ..even all of the above) , can stop the monotony, if nothing else, it will make you step out of 'SAFE MODE' and make you work harder.. 

So.....Don't get comfortable, or formularize your art, that's the kiss of death. I have seen many very capable artists 'paint themselves out' when they stick to only one area of expertise/genre, one that sells for them, or one in which they feel SAFE.

It's size is 8" x 10"
$150 unframed

This image is also available in print through Fine Art America:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-gentle-sway-to-the-left-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

 Rae works and teaches in all media, if you want more info on her workshops, please contact her through this blog or via her website at:

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A Playful Balance..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This one is a demo I did in conjunction with my watercolor waterfall study I posted three posts ago, a demo on moving water, action and drama. 

I did this demo the same day, in pastels on Sennelier paper.

I did not have a reference photo for this demo, and was getting the students ready for hopefully seeing a waterfall the next day, when we painted at an outdoor location. 

I love to paint the action packed waterfalls, and somehow it looks better (for me) if the artist memorizes a scene and lets a little imagination play into the painting. After all the water is constantly moving, so studying it and watching how it falls will help when you paint it.

It will make the artist really concentrate on the movement of the water, storing that little personal video in the head for later use.

This pastel is on a tan colored Sennelier sanded paper, it's all pure pastel, no underpainting. I prefer my pastels to be done this way.

I hope you like this one.

Image size is 9" x 12" unframed.
$150 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-playfull-balance-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae works and teaches in all media, if you want more info on her classes and workshops, please contact her through this blog or through her website at:

raeandrews.com


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Little French Tumble..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

LITTLE FRENCH TUMBLE was one of the quick demos I did on my recent France trip and workshop.

The scene is inspired by the gorgeous area of Castelfranc, a small village not far from Le Vieux Couvent.

The demo was about moving water, which I did back in the studio after spying this scene on my walk... and I did another in watercolor of still water which  will be posted later.

I wanted the students to just play with the concept of movement, and let the watercolor make the statement. It's not always necessary to copy a scene verbatim, I like to give my impression of the scene and work a lot from memory. This painting is completely done this way.. my personal 'mind video' of what I recalled.

The way I like to portray moving water is by leaving a lot of whites as the foam. It takes practice and sometimes I do mess it up, it happens. So , my advice, never get discouraged, just take it all in your artist's stride and paint another one.. I call it BRUSH MILEAGE.. Practice makes perfect. Okay?

This one is  7" x 22" 
$200 Plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/little-french-tumble-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae paints and teaches in all mediums. For more info please contact her through this blog or her website.

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A Texas Howdy..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

A small unframed watercolor ready for framing. I love doing these small treasures. Hope you like.

Image size 8" x 8"

$120 pluas S/H

Prints of his image are also available through Fine Art America:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-texas-howdy-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae paints and teaches in all media..

Please contact her through this blog or her website for more info.

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Un Petit Chien..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I had this off cut piece of bright deep velvet suede mat board, and decided to try a pastel of this sweet face on it.

The dog was in a market place in Provence a few years ago when I was there.

The red substrate was strong and a little daunting to control with my pastels, but I think I did okay with this one. On to the next now.

This image is 10" x 10" unframed.

$180 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/un-petit-chien-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

               

                                         Rae works teaches in all mediums
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Neptunea..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

And here is my finished painting.

Image size is 9" x 25" unframed

$499 plus S/H

The surface is Sennelier sanded paper and the medium is PASTEL.

I hope you like this one..

Prints are also available through my Fine Art America site:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/neptunea-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

                                                         
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                                      Rae works and  teaches workshops in all mediums.