Game Roosters Watercolor
by Don Cobb
(Shreveport, La.)
Game Roosters
I finally found a place near me that still raises colorful chickens. I took several photos for reference.
This rooster painting was done without the use of masking fluid or grease pencil. I sprinkled salt on the background chicken house for textures.
What I would like to accomplish in the near future is to do a watercolor painting without sketching. I use the grid method for sketching now, it makes sketching easier, but I would rather just start painting.
Oh, the old roosters did not appreciate having their photo made, check out their spurs.
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Crawfish For Sale
by Don Cobb
(Shreveport, La.)
Crawfish For Sale - $1.99 lb.
I shot this crawfish photo for reference at a roadside crawfish stand here in Louisiana. I told these two Cajun guys who operated the crawfish stand, that I would give them prints of the painting whenever I finished it. I ended up designing them a new business card also.
I protected the feelers on the crawfish with a white grease pencil, so I could hurry up and get this painting done. This crawfish painting still took a long time to do.
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Texas Longhorn Watercolor
by Don Cobb
(Shreveport, La.)
Texas Longhorns
Friends of mine own these Texas Longhorns at the W H Longhorn Ranch.
They have about 150 head of longhorn cattle there. I told them I would love to do some paintings of longhorn cattle, so I went and took pictures for reference. This is my first painting from those photos.
I will be selling art at Texas Art Festivals soon, so I am in the process of painting subjects to sell at these Texas Festivals.
My friends at the Longhorn ranch said they don't have any problems with coyotes.
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Riverboat Days
by Don Cobb
(Shreveport, La. - U.S.)
River Boat Days
This is a 18x24 watercolor I finished last week, I painted it in about 5 hours off and on. The water birds in the sky where the only things I used maskoid on, I dislike using maskoid, but I wanted the sky to be a more spontaneous wash.
I painted this subject from about twenty 1860's photographs I found on the internet, borrowing this and that as I sketched from each photo to make my rendition of that subject, using the grid method.
I will do a river town art festival in October for 8 days, the "Red River Revel", so I am hoping my prints of it will sell well.
Riverboats prospered in my area of North Louisiana for 100 years, when cotton was king.
I have done a lot of art festivals in the last two years and what is hot right now is dragonflies, rabbits, fleur de lis, cats, horses, birds and anything black and white, with a little color thrown in.
Hope you like my riverboat.
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