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There is a new, biographical art book on the block about the life and times of the well known and loved watercolor painter and teacher, Milford Zornes. The book is titled, “Happiness Is Warm Color in the Shade,” co-authored by my friends, Hal and Maria Baker.  What follows is a personal review of the book… The new book, “Happiness Is Warm Color in the Shade,”” is an enjoyable biographical read for artists and non-artists alike. Co-authors, Milford’s son-in-law, Hal Baker, and Milford’s daughter, Maria Zornes Baker, have created a well documented book about the life, times, and path of a dedic ..read more

Title: ManzanarVisitorCenter, Original Watercolor Painting, 15″ x 24″. ]The above image is created from a sketch done earlier in the year. A similar version was created at a watercolor demonstration during this year’s Henry Fukuhara 20th Anniversary workshop, Manzanar, California. The post MANZANAR VISITORS CENTER appeared first on Woody's Watercolor Blog ..read more

Title: SWANSEA SHACK – Original watercolor by Woody Hansen, 15″ x 22″ To learn more about this painting, including purchase information, click on image. 2017 HENRY FUKUHARA WORKSHOP The registration for the 20th Manzanar Workshop founded by Henry Fukuhara (1913 to 2010), will be held from Thursday May 18th to Monday May 22nd, 2017. This year’s title: “Henry and Friends: A Legacy of Giving Back”. This workshop will feature five days in the Owens Valley. There will be an emphasis on giving back to teachers and to the art community, our cadre of friends-of-Henry volunteer- artists will prov ..read more

On this day an interegnum infestation begins with Putin’s Puppet and friends. The post INTEREGNUM BUG appeared first on Woody's Watercolor Blog ..read more

Title: Compliments – Original watercolor by Woody Hansen, 15″ x 22″ To learn more about this painting, including purchase information, please click on image. COMPLIMENTS Compliments, begins as a non-objective work. The plan is to attempt to create a painting with a different type of Christmas theme, including a modified complimentary color scheme of red and green, in keeping with the season. . Relative to color selection, the goal of Compliments  is to avoid the usual red and green hues associated  with this particular holiday, in favor of less saturated, cooler choices, while maintaining th ..read more

Title: Two Stumps – Original watercolor by Woody Hansen, 15″ x 22″ To learn more about this painting, including purchase information, please click on image. TWO STUMPS On a recent, warm, Free Friday morning my dog, Connor and I venture into the nearby Sacramento, American River Parkway. We are there from about 9:15 to 11:15. We returned to the studio with eleven, 4.5 by 6.5 inch value plans. Probably the best of he group is, as is usual in my case, the first effort. I rarely work in series. However, what I don’t realize at the time is  this single value plan will become the basis for six fut ..read more

Title: SWANSEA SHACK – Original watercolor by Woody Hansen, 15″ x 22″ To learn more about this painting, including purchase information, click on image. ON LOCATION IN SWANSEA The painting, Swansea Shack,is accomplished May 17, 2015, during  a recent, 18th Annual Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Workshop headquartered in Lone Pine, California. Day  four of the five day workshop begins on an unseasonably calm, comfortable Sunday. The subject matter of Swansea Shack is located on private property in what is, or was, Swansea. The town has quite a history, some of which will be noted later in this post ..read more

Title: EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 – Original watercolor by Woody Hansen, 15″ x 22″ To learn more about this painting, including purchase information, click on image. For the past several years I’ve had the pleasure of participating  in the late Henry Fukuhara’s (4/25/19-1/31/10) Manzanar Outdoor Watercolor Workshops. One of the on-site locations is, of corse, the site of the Manzanar Relocation Center, located in California, on the eastern side of the Sierra Mountain range, between the cities of Lone Pine, to the South, and Independence, to the North. MANZANAR As the reader may know, Manzanar was ..read more

 Title: ROSE IS A ROSE – Original watercolor by Woody Hansen, 15″ x 22″ To learn more about this painting, including purchase information, click on image. A ROSE IS A ROSE A Rose Is A Rose, provides an interesting study of how a non-objective painting can evolve into the suggestion of a recognizable subject. In this way the work becomes not a non-objective watercolor, but one of a more abstract nature. A Rose Is A Rose, begins free-hand,Without a priliminary  pencil sketch, or value plan, and with no other objective except to served as a class demonstration of one of the ways a shape painter ..read more