Friday, January 5, 2018

Painting Koi - Three Ways!

KOI POND
Watercolor - 11x15

There is something very peaceful about watching koi swimming around a pond. When the kids were small we used to go to the botanical gardens where they had several koi ponds among all of their beautiful flowers.

KOI JEWELS
Watercolor - 11x15

The bright, pretty colors of the fish make them fun to paint. Orange, gold and even blue. As the artist you can go for realism or shake things up a bit and use more pastel colors.

KOI & BAMBOO
Watercolor Collage - 15x22

For this painting I decided to add some bamboo and then collaged on different hand painted rice papers to add more texture to the piece. Three paintings of koi using three different creative approaches.