Archive for the 'watercolor' Category
Robin Roberts on 25 Nov 2010
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. This is one of the cupola’s on the campus of Ashland University. It happens to be on a building that is scheduled to be razed next month. I went to classes in this building when I was a student here. This is Miller Hall which was once the library, offices and classrooms [...]
Tags: Ashland University, cupola, plein air, watercolor
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Robin Roberts on 11 Nov 2010
I went painting with the Ohio Plein Air Society last Saturday. It was a little crisp but the sun came out and there was some beautiful light. I fought through some thorn bushes to get this angle across the pond back into the barn and I think it was worth it. Still experimenting with watercolor [...]
Tags: Columbus, High Banks Metro Park, Ohio, plein air, red barn, watercolor
Filed in Landscapes,OPAS,plein air,watercolor
Robin Roberts on 28 Sep 2010
I’ve been playing around a little with watercolor lately. I did this one as part of the virtual paintout from Bill Guffy. A great little thing to go to when your looking for something to do when you can’t get out.
Tags: Coors Light, landscape, Manhattan, watercolor
Filed in Landscapes,watercolor
Robin Roberts on 27 Dec 2009
I had started this painting en plein air but ran out of time in the field and decided to finish it in the studio. The sheep were very curious as to what I was up to and stood watching me very attentively. I also made a new friend in some kind of mutt that day. [...]
Tags: barn, sheep, watercolor
Filed in Landscapes,Wildlife,plein air,watercolor
Robin Roberts on 17 Nov 2009
This was done for Karen Jurick’s, “Different Strokes From Different Folks” web site. She posts an image there and then challenges artists to paint it and she posts them back to the site. It is amazing to see all the different ways that people interpret the same image. Check it out. For mine I decided [...]
Tags: airport, DSFDF, watercolor
Filed in Different Strokes From Different Folks,watercolor
Robin Roberts on 23 Sep 2008
“Stoney Point” watercolor – 12 x 16 © Robin Roberts 2008 This was painted as a part of the OPAS plein air painting competition. I ended up doing a couple other paintings over the weekend too. I will get those uploaded later. The weather was outstanding. This barn was fun to paint. I am still [...]
Tags: landscape, plein air, watercolor
Filed in Landscapes,watercolor
Robin Roberts on 01 Aug 2008
Originally uploaded by redredpres The White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus, has been extremely important in Ohio’s history. The state tree, the Ohio Buckeye, is named because its nut resembles a deer—or buck’s—eye. Buckeye is based on the Indian word “hetuck,” meaning “eye of the buck.” White-tailed Deer have been in Ohio since the end of the [...]
Tags: landscape, Moly_X_32, watercolor, white-tailed deer, Wildlife
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