Shadows and Reflections..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This was my demonstration yesterday for my online course DANCING BRUSHES 2

I love to paint water scenes, they are so relaxing and even cool to paint.

                                                         14" x 20" unframed
                                                                 $350 plus S/H

                              Prints are also available through Fine Art America

         Rae also conducts online workshops called Dancing Brushes With Rae Andrews

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From The Edge..Watercolor...Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Here is my second lily pad painting from Le Vieux Couvent in southwest France

I just love painting water and these reflections really wet my appetite.
I hope you like this one.


Watercolor on Arches CP paper (unframed)
9" x 26"
$450 plus S/H

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


Thanks for visiting..

Rae teaches in both the USA and Europe.

For more info on workshops contact her through this blog or via her website
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Waterlily Connections..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I just finished this one recently

After teaching at Le Vieux Couvent in France in southwest France, I am still filled with the lovely scenery we saw and experienced in that region of France.

On the grounds of this wonderful Artist’s Retreat, is a lovely fish pond, complete with koi and lily pads.

I have painted this pond a few times, and it never tires me to begin a new view of it.

I liked the idea of the elongated format, seemed to suit the very oriental subject matter.

I plan on painting another ‘friend’ to this painting very soon as well.

Monet eat your heart out. LOL.

9” x 26”

Watercolor on Arches CP paper

$450 plus S/H

Thanks so much for visiting..come back soon.

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

Rae teaches workshops in the USA and Europe

Please contact he for more information via this blog or through her website

RaeAndrews.com

Let The Waters Speak..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Let The Waters Speak is a small watercolor on Arches CP paper.

10” x 10”

$250 plus S/H

Prints are also available through Fine Art America.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/let-the-waters-speak-rae-andrews.html

To The Voice Of Running Waters..Watercolor..Texas Artist ..Rae Andrews

Just finished this watercolor. I made a step by step tutorial on the process,  on my YouTube channel..

Rae Andrews YouTube

This image is 16” x 20” unframed

$500 plus S/H

Prints are also  available on my Fine Art America Print site.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/to-the-voice-of-running-waters-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Thanks for visiting..

Rae teaches workshops in the Unites States and Europe in all media.

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

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Journal Entry Texas scene..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Just finished this journal entry.. a few years ago I was at the banks of the Pedernales River not far from where I live here in Texas. It’s a great spot to paint.

Lately we have had an enormous amount of rain and flooding, so this area is a good place to stay away from till the water subsides. 

I used an old photo for this journal entry.

 It’s in my Stillman and birn 8” x 10” Beta series journal.

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Rae teaches workshops in both the USA and Europe. 

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

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Journal Entry ...Watercolor...Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This journal entry is from one of my wanders off the beaten track during my workshop at Le Vieux Couvent in France one year ago.

While students were painting the church nearby and vineyards, I did a little excursion through the brambles with my camera and found this amazingly beautiful scene to paint.

The reflections were simply beautiful. They were just reaching out from the shore and in the far distance there was a small beach of some sort..just perfection.

This is in my larger format 8” x 10” Stillman and Birn journal.

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Rae teaches workshops in both the United States and Europe.
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Portofino Interlude..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This is another of the boats in the Portofino Bay. Same boat as my last post, different vantage point.

I loved all the colors when I was there, and of course I embellish them to my own liking as well. 

This image is a pastel on Sennelier paper.

The painting measures 16" x 20" unframed.

$500 plus S/H

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

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/portofino-interlude-rae-andrews.html

Thanks for visiting..

Rae teaches workshops in all media. For more info please contact her through this blog or through her website:

raeandrews.com

Portofino Drift..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Finally finished this one.. Pastel on red Sennelier paper.

I am a part of a pastel presentation for Austin Pastel Society on Sunday 28th October  (approx. 3.30-4.30 pm) at Precision Camera in Austin. Please come along if you want to see a fun demonstration by 5 artists.

You would be most welcome. We have a silent auction at the end of each work, and the money raised goes into our scholarship fund.

This presentation is called a PAINT AROUND where all five artists begin on their own artwork for first ten minutes, then it is passed around to the next artist for them to do another ten minutes pastelling  on it.

 The demo lasts one hour with the artwork ending up in front of the original artist, for them to 'tweak' what the other artists have done to their work.

Great fun!

The above pastel painting is me getting in readiness for this presentation.

This image measures 16" x 20" unframed

 $500 plus S/H

Prints are also available through Fine Art America:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/portofino-drift-rae-andrews.html

Thanks for visiting.

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

raeandrews.com

Skyscape 11..Watercolor...Texas Artist...Rae Andrews

Skyscape is the 11th one I have done in this series of watercolors lately. Great fun to sculpt the clouds out of nothing. I find myself looking up at the sky a lot lately, studying the cloud shapes.

This image is 8" x 8" unframed

$125 plus S/H

Prints are also available though Fine Art America:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/skyscape-11-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Thanks for visiting..

Rae paints and teaches in all media..

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

raeandrews.com

Water Dance..Oil...Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Although I did this one a long time ago I thought I would still post it today, it was such a fun image to paint. You know me and waterscapes.

This is an oil on gallery wrap canvas.

Image size is 18" x 48" 

This image is only available in prints from my Fine Art America print site:

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

Thanks for visiting...

Rae paints and teaches in all media.. For more information please contact her through this blog or via her website at:

raeandrews.com

Dordogne Charm, France..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

While in France on my last workshop at Le View Couvent, we picnicked on the Dordogne river after a visit to Balnac Castel,  and I did a demo in pastels of this bridge.



I decided the other day, to work very loosely on this one in watercolors, from one of my photos.
The colors are a romantic take on this scene, but I quite like that liberty.




This image is 12" x 16" unframed
$200 plus S/H






Prints of this panting are also available through Fine Art America:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/dordogne-charm-france-rae-andrews.html

              Rae works and teaches in all mediums

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Watering Hole..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Just finished this small watercolor. The scene is close to where I live here in Texas.. Scraggly old trees and grasses nestle beside the water, fun to paint.


I hope you like this one..


This image is 9" x 12" unframed


$200 plus S/H


Prints of this image are available through Fine Art America:


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

                                                Rae works and teaches in all mediums.                           
                           Please contact her through this blog for more information.


                                                           Thanks for visiting..

Chain Reaction..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

And here is my finished image.


Chain Reaction is a pastel on Sennelier paper.
Image size is 15.5" x 19.5" unframed


$450 plus S/H


I did quite a lot of reconstruction on the links from my initial drawing. I made the water up and the wharf, both of which were not visible in my photo, which incidentally was a chain I saw on Maui in the Maalaea Harbor.


I also turned this one every which way during my process, and finally decided to make it a horizontal format.






Prints of this image are also available through my Fine Art America print site:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/chain-reaction-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

                                                     Thanks for visiting..


  Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

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Lakeside Cluster..Pastel..Texas Artist.. Rae Andrews

This is really from my imagination. I had this red piece of Sennelier paper cut in the elongated shape with which I love to challenge myself.






It seems to have been so long since I have been in my gorgeous studio, I have missed it terribly!


I will try to post more often. Just a series of life changes have interrupted me for now.


                                                    I hope you like this one.








                                            This image is 9.5" x 25.5" unframed.


                                                           $175 plus S/H


                                     Prints are also available through Fine Art America:


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     Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

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Tidepool Interrupted..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I love to watch water move, whether it's a waterfall,  a pond or pool with a slight rippling effect. It's all mesmerizing to me and very peaceful.

I tried to capture that feeling with this one. That action of looking down into a rock pool when a ripple breaks the surface with such wonderful patterns.

I hope you like this one, it was a fun one to paint.

This image is a pastel (unframed ) on Sennelier sanded paper.

18" x 24"

$500 plus S/H

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

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

                  Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

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Like Music Adrift..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Hi again, I am finally able to get back to a post on this blog. My hubby has been in hospital yet again, and my life is just very scattered right now, so no time for painting. Grrr!


I started this one about three days ago. It is a 19.5" x 25.5" pastel on red Sennelier sanded paper (unframed). This one was cathartic for me, with all the stress over the last few months. Just to paint again has been a real treat!


I love to paint water in any form as you may realize, and this rock pool (without the shells) was on Maui . I again 'sparked up my colors using Photoshop on my photo.
I used my own shell collection to pop in a little more interest.


I hope you like it. It was a fun image to paint.


$450 plus S/H


Prints of this image are available through Fine Art America:


https://fineartamerica.com/featured/like-music-adrift-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

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Chasm Interrupted..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I am on a roll with these abstracts now, hope you are not sick of them.
This one was a challenge..


As you will see from the step by step page below, it began as a full sheet of Sennelier paper on which I had done a quick demo for an art group years ago.


 I am going through all my old filed paintings and reconstructing them. I hate to waste this wonderful substrate.


So...  I first turned the old demo upside down before deciding to cut the paper in half vertically.
 
I find if I view an old image upside down first it changes my perspective on that piece, and I begin to see possibilities for another painting.


This one, as with my previous posts, changed a great deal throughout the process of painting it. I could easily have gone with a horizontal format, but in the end, decided on this vertical.
I am constantly rotating the work as I paint.


This image is 10" x 25.5" unframed
$350 plus S/H




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

See below for the thought process behind this pastel painting..

Thanks for visiting..

Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

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Cavernous Tumble..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This painting started as a demo start, only partly done, and I did not want to toss the great paper.

It was a full sheet of reddish  Sennelier paper, which I turned upside down and cut in half so I have two pieces I can work on. (there will be another painting coming up soon from this paper)

I liked the color contrast in the demo, so just went with it.

I wanted to abstract my image (though) and after my France workshop last May and a visit to some amazing caves, I felt this image could be an 'echo' of that .

See all the steps below, to better explain.

This image is 13" x 19.5" unframed

$350 plus S/H

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

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

                             Below is a little on the thoughts behind my process.


As a finished painting the sheet directly below shows the image in all directions. I could still change my mind on this, it's an easy thing to erase my signature and place it elsewhere if I decided to perhaps go with a vertical format, I will have to live with my chosen top image for a few days and see how I feel.

 

 






The sheet below is my whole thought process throughout this painting. From an old demo partly done on a full sheet/cut in half/turned upside down/ and then gradually working around the shapes in a new painting.

Thanks for visiting..

Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

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Estuary Peace..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I did this one at the same time I did the post called On A Clear Day a few days ago.

It was on a piece of Sennelier paper.

Image size is 7.5" x 7.5" unframed

$125 plus S/H

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

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

Thanks for visiting..

Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

                                                         http://raeandrews.com