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Route 66 Paintings
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Route 66 gas station watercolor painting
Monday, May 26, 2008
Route 66 paintings. American Route 66 gas station southwestern and western old highway cityscape gas station American watercolor painting poster fine art modern print. Gas pumps back in history when the United States gas prices were much lower. Mobilgas old pumps along the old road when traveling through historical USA. Pen and in and pencil drawing watercolor wash. Colors are very America blue, red, white, green and yellow. 159 dollars
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Route 66 Paintings
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Route 66 Paintings
Clearwater Florida Beach Boat
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Clearwater Florida Beach Boats 15 x 20 inch original watercolor painting, pen and ink drawing, watercolor wash. Nautical seascape marine artwork. Gulf of Mexico beach. Near Pier 60. The close boat is the Little Toot party boat and the larger boat is the Calypso Queen, a passenger dolphin sight-seeing cruise shi[ water vessel that is also an all you can eat buffet restaurant. This painting was fun and a challenge to paint. I first completed the entire drawing in pencil. Then painted it in watercolor with numerous layers to brighten up the translucent color and finally outlined the painting with pen and ink. It is a stunning colorful modern artwork.
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Macaw Parrot bird on Yupo Paper painting
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
My latest watercolor wildlife bird painting of a Macaw parrot. Modern realistic animal watercolor painting on yupo paper.
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Sea Turtle 2
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Sea Turtle Painting" 11 x 15 inches sea turtle marine animal reptile watercolor painting fine art giclee print coastal home beach decor different print sizes available below. View more art at my gallery at
Sea Turtle Paintings
Parrot Macaw bird watercolor painting
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Macaw parrot watercolor painting. I was inspired to paint this from a visit to Aquatica, the new Sea World park. These are the most beautiful parrots to me.
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River Street Savannah Georgia Watercolor painting art
Sunday, April 20, 2008
River Street Savannah Georgia Watercolor painting art and pen and ink drawing mixed media painted this today. It has been a while since I painted a cityscape but Savannah downtown and River Street is so hisgtorical and beautiful with the old buildings and southern flair I could not refuse.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse painting
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse painting. This is the closest lighthouse to my home of Satellite Beach. It is very close to NASA and overlooks the "I Dream of Jeanie" beaches from yesteryear and overwatches Major Neloson's antics with Jeanie. Lol. It is a different lighthouse for sure. limited edition signed and numbered print for $20
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Nov 07 Newsletter and Pen and ink log cabin drawing
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Derek McCrea's November 2007 Artists Newsletter
I just got completed with my latest commission last night. It was an old barn house. I tried a few techniques on this work I never had tried before. I wanted the image to be a pen and ink but wanted the ink to be very dark, bold and have thick strokes, not my usual pen and ink technique. So I started out drawing this work in pencil and then took a "SHARPEE MARKER"...not the conventional artist’s tool and went to work on this 12 x 16 drawing attached.
Then after completing that I checked my email and found that my article I submitted for the magazine, "Watercolour Gazette" out of Canada is being published and they are sending me some copies of it in the November/December issue. Some of the article is shown below excluding images and step by step painting instructions in my lesson in the magazine:
Lessons learned throughout over 25 years of painting include:
1. Never paint when you are not inspired.
2. Try to visualize what you want to paint before you paint the subject and imagine a finished product and what steps you will take to get there.
3. For larger and more detailed works draw the image on the canvas first with light pencil.
4. Establish your own style but learn from others. Experiment with creating art using individual techniques beginning with smaller less detailed images and working your way up.
5. Techniques I have learned to use and call my own include:
- Use of splatter to create depth
- Use of charcoal on finished products to add texture and shadows
- Wet on wet, let the watercolors do their magic, sometimes watercolors when wet on wet create effects that make you say, “How did I do that?”
- Try not to use too much paint, start out with lighter colors and add layers of darker colors. Too much watercolor paint creates a mess that you can not fix. That is the difference between watercolors and other mediums that can be repaired by “painting over”.
- Use Art Trading Cards to practice your larger images before painting them large. This way if you make a mistake it will be on a small piece of paper and you can apply that lesson to your larger work.
- I have seen different techniques for holding the watercolor paper to your background for paintings, including stapling down the sides of the work. I prefer to use masking tape around the entire edges of my paintings. This also aids buyers to mat the painting with ½ inch edges all the way around the circumference of the painting.
My career is as a Soldier. My two hobbies include painting and offshore fishing. Both of which are very relaxing and allow me to express myself. Creating art for me is a way of life. Something I enjoy.
I attached my latest commission work to this email.
Also mid to end of October I worked on an artwork illustration for Perception Pro, who is using the image for advertising, banners, etc. look at a preview of their up and coming business site here:
http://www.xanderbean.com/per_pro/
Thanks for being a fan of my art.
I promise to keep creating as long as I have a breath left in me.
http://ArtsCad.com/@/DerekMccrea
I just got completed with my latest commission last night. It was an old barn house. I tried a few techniques on this work I never had tried before. I wanted the image to be a pen and ink but wanted the ink to be very dark, bold and have thick strokes, not my usual pen and ink technique. So I started out drawing this work in pencil and then took a "SHARPEE MARKER"...not the conventional artist’s tool and went to work on this 12 x 16 drawing attached.
Then after completing that I checked my email and found that my article I submitted for the magazine, "Watercolour Gazette" out of Canada is being published and they are sending me some copies of it in the November/December issue. Some of the article is shown below excluding images and step by step painting instructions in my lesson in the magazine:
Lessons learned throughout over 25 years of painting include:
1. Never paint when you are not inspired.
2. Try to visualize what you want to paint before you paint the subject and imagine a finished product and what steps you will take to get there.
3. For larger and more detailed works draw the image on the canvas first with light pencil.
4. Establish your own style but learn from others. Experiment with creating art using individual techniques beginning with smaller less detailed images and working your way up.
5. Techniques I have learned to use and call my own include:
- Use of splatter to create depth
- Use of charcoal on finished products to add texture and shadows
- Wet on wet, let the watercolors do their magic, sometimes watercolors when wet on wet create effects that make you say, “How did I do that?”
- Try not to use too much paint, start out with lighter colors and add layers of darker colors. Too much watercolor paint creates a mess that you can not fix. That is the difference between watercolors and other mediums that can be repaired by “painting over”.
- Use Art Trading Cards to practice your larger images before painting them large. This way if you make a mistake it will be on a small piece of paper and you can apply that lesson to your larger work.
- I have seen different techniques for holding the watercolor paper to your background for paintings, including stapling down the sides of the work. I prefer to use masking tape around the entire edges of my paintings. This also aids buyers to mat the painting with ½ inch edges all the way around the circumference of the painting.
My career is as a Soldier. My two hobbies include painting and offshore fishing. Both of which are very relaxing and allow me to express myself. Creating art for me is a way of life. Something I enjoy.
I attached my latest commission work to this email.
Also mid to end of October I worked on an artwork illustration for Perception Pro, who is using the image for advertising, banners, etc. look at a preview of their up and coming business site here:
http://www.xanderbean.com/per_pro/
Thanks for being a fan of my art.
I promise to keep creating as long as I have a breath left in me.
http://ArtsCad.com/@/DerekMccrea
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