Alan's Watercolor Journals

This is the third time that I have painted this. I will keep trying until I get it right I guess. This piece is on a half sheet, 15x22, of 200# Wat...

I started this painting as a class demonstration when I was teaching at the "Ocean Sands Watercolor Workshop". This lady is a Battwa (commonly kn...

This painting is from a photograph taken by Colin and Julie in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This photo was taken at Tak Meo. April and I were in Phnom Pen...

This is the first pet portrait I ever dd. Bubba lived across the street from us. He died just before Christmas this year and his heartbroken owner...

There are a variety of vendors on foot pushing carts on the streets of Phnom Penh. This particular vendor was selling snails that are harvested f...

This beautiful little girl lives in one of the refugee camps in Thailand along Cambodia's North border. These refugees fled the Khmer Rouge genocid...

This is a value study for a painting that will be part of my upcoming show called "the Children of Southeast Asia". This little one lives (2007) in...

This is another recent sketch for the upcoming show this fall (2008). I am posting these primarily for the use of my students so that you might see...

Here are a few more value sketches, and there are flaws in them that I will hopefully correct as I redo them for the painting but, they are adequ...

Here is the original photo and the value sketch. The completed piece may actually include the other two figures in the photo. I do like the compo...

April's oldest boy was born at 10,000' in Leadville, Colorado. Most years that I can remember he has taken time to hunt for Elk in the Colorado hig...