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Day 21 – Wind In The Trees #WorldWatercolorMonth


– Wind In The Trees –
Day #21 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 21 – Wind In The Trees – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today post is for yesterday, it is not easy to catch up one day lost of painting last week, but I stay on my path!  Day 21  official  prompt is “Wind In The Trees” there is a touch of gold ink in her hair and on the, it is  hard to see it in the photo but it looks beautiful<3

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black, white and dark red ink pens. Gold Gelly Roll Sakura pen. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a great weekend enjoy painting! ❤

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Day 20 – Daydreaming #WorldWatercolorMonth


– California Dreaming –
Day #20 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 20 – California Dreaming – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today post is for yesterday painting Day 20 official  prompt is “California Dreaming” I live in California from last 15 years! Today I made a painting illustrating one of the most famous places in Los Angeles and an all time tourist attraction “Hollywood”!  I couldn’t miss to portray one beautiful movie star, iconic Marilyn Monroe! Her beauty has no time but I painted her in my style, watercolor and ink with a touch of Pop Art. I gave her, blue hair! I can see a nowadays Marilyn being able to casually sporting baby blue or pink color hair and be lovely! I also painted her between the bright yellow “California Poppy flowers” they are like sunshine here you can see them all over!

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black, white and dark red ink pens. Gold Gelly Roll Sakura pen. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a great weekend! ❤

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Day 19 – By The Pool #WorldWatercolorMonth


– By The Pool –
Day #19 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 19 – By The Pool – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today post is for yesterday painting Day 19 official  prompt is “By The Pool” these days it is really hot pretty much all around so water in my painting is a must have! ❤

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black, white and dark red ink pens. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a great coming weekend everyone! ❤

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Day 18 – Eternal Embrace (Furry Friends) #WorldWatercolorMonth


– Eternal Embrace (Furry Friends) –
Day #18 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 18 – Eternal Embrace (Furry Friends) – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today painting official prompt is “Furry Friends” I wanted to create a very meaningful painting in loving memory of my beautiful Dutch Bunny “Grey” passed away at the beginning of June, it’s a little more than one month and I still cannot believe he isn’t here anymore I miss him very much! My painting is also dedicated to anyone that experienced the g loss of a loved pet. I gave my own title to this painting which is  “Eternal Embrace”  we will always love and carry our beautiful pets inside our heart with an eternal embrace they will always be with us!  ❤

Day 18 – Eternal Embrace (Furry Friends) – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black, white and dark red ink pens. Gold Sakura Gelly Roll pen, I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a great week everyone! ❤

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Art, Challenge, Custom Portraits, Drawings, Emotions, Ethereal, Events, Fantasy Art, Illustration, Indie, Ink Drawing, Limited Edition, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch, Uncategorized, Watercolors, World Watercolor Group, World Watercolor Month, World Watercolor Month

Day 17 – Running Wild #WorldWatercolorMonth


– Running Wild –
Day #17 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 17 – Running Wild – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo


Today post is for yesterday painting Day 17 I did catch up and a little later I will post today painting too! Official  prompt is “Running Wild” when I think at running wild the first thing in my mind is a wild horse or riding a horse my portrait is more like memories of a wild horse!

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black, white and dark red ink pens. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a great week everyone a! ❤

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Day 16 – Introspection (Off Prompt) #WorldWatercolorMonth


– Introspection  –
Day #16 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 16 – Introspection (Off Prompt) – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

I am running one day behind! Today painting, it is another off prompt my title is “Introspection” I painted a realistic eye to symbolize the given title Introspection which means “to look inside,” and describes the act of thinking about your own actions or inner thoughts. When you examine what you do, say, think or feel and how it affects your life and the lives of others, that’s introspection.

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black, red and white ink pens. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a great week! ❤

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Art, Challenge, Custom Portraits, Drawings, Emotions, Ethereal, Events, Fantasy Art, Illustration, Indie, Ink Drawing, Limited Edition, My Paintings, Nature, Popsurrealism, Sketch, Uncategorized, Watercolors, World Watercolor Group, World Watercolor Month, World Watercolor Month

Day 15 – Daydreaming #WorldWatercolorMonth


– Daydreaming –
Day #15 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 15 – Daydreaming – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today post is for yesterday painting Day 15 this weekend I have been quite busy with other activities but I manage to paint. Official  prompt is “Daydreaming”

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black, white and dark red ink pens. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a great week everyone a! ❤

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©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

Art, Challenge, Creativity, Custom Portraits, Drawings, Emotions, Ethereal, Events, Illustration, Indie, Ink Drawing, Life, Limited Edition, Love, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch, Uncategorized, Watercolors, World Watercolor Group, World Watercolor Month, World Watercolor Month

Day 14 – Peaceful (Off Prompt) #WorldWatercolorMonth


– Peaceful  –
Day #14 World Watercolor Month 2017

Day 14 – Peaceful (Off Prompt) – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today I will have two posts this one is yesterday painting, it is another off prompt my title is “Peaceful”. I love nature and animals they can be amazing companions! Yesterday I wasn’t at home but I carried my essential to paint and I managed to paint while in a nice coffee place sipping a delicious coffee! 😉 Later on today I will post my Day 15 which is a work in progress right now!

Details about my watercolor paintings:
 My watercolors is outlined with black and white ink pens. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle,  Ink pens used COPIC Multiliner Black ink #03 and 05 . A Alvin Draft/Matic #03 Limited Edition Pink Mab Graves Pencil.  Pentel Aqua Brush – I painted on Bee Paper for watercolor 140lb, 100% cotton, cold pressed, size 6×9 inches .

To see my World Watercolors Month 2017 Collection of daily  paintings please visit my  Gallery


All my watercolor paintings for the World Watercolor Month 2017 are available for preorder in Limited Edition Fine Art Prints only #31 numbered and hand signed Prints. For details visit the Gallery page linked above’

 

#WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorGroup

Wish you a wonderful month everyone and to my artists friends keep painting! ❤

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Wander In The Abyss #MerMay2017

  

Wander In The Abyss – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

– Wander In The Abyss Mermaid #MerMay2017!

The month of May is over in few days and so the #MerMay2017 challenge, I loved to participate and during the month I re-posted some of my mermaids I previously painted and I made this new mermaid painting.
I am sorry I haven’t post much lately, it was because I had to fix a problem with my computer, thankfully right now is all working and fixed! I haven’t been writing here on my Blog but I did post my work on Instagram and if you follow me there you know I have been pretty busy drawing and painting!

Wander In The Abyss – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today I am excited about my  ” New Release” and  to share with you my finished  “Wander In The Abyss – Mermaid” a watercolor and ink painting. If you came across my previous post you remember this mermaid and that I was showing my work in progress, from the pencil sketch to the begin stage of watercolor, if you missed that post, maybe you like to read it and see how this painting come alive. This watercolor mermaid had a pretty long process, lots of patience and layers for me to be able to obtain this look and all the shades of colors on a “not watercolor paper” like the gray toned paper sketchbook that I used. This time, I really wanted to try something different using a toned paper for background and I wanted to see how  I could use watercolors and inks on a paper for dry media.  I can say that It’s pretty tricky! I am happy with the way the painting turned out!

A Limited Edition of 20 Art Prints is now available only hand embellished
I will add by hand the gold ink to embellish each print and turn it in one of a kind and special. It is very difficult to print the gold ink from an original painting because the scanner and printer aren’t able to give the real gold pigments and spark, that’s why I decided to do only a very small run of special prints hand embellished. When the 20 prints are sold out I won’t print them again and with time they will increase in value!  Prints are size 8×10 inches, I offer a special discounted price for  my friends and for anyone that  place an order here on the Blog Price is $45 + $8 Shipping via USPS Priority Mail within US if you like to reserve a print just fill in the form linked.

Wander In The Abyss – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Details about my painting:
 I Sketched on a Strathmore 400 Series medium surface 80 lb – gray toned paper large sketchbook size 9 x 12 inches for dry media.  I used a  Draft/Matic Pencil  0.5mm by Mab Graves Limited Edition for ALVIN for my sketch  and I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle and Artist’s Loft watercolor pan set I used this set for a opaque- chalk effect. Ink pen COPIC Multiliner #0.03 and a SAKURA  Metallic gold Gelly Roll pen.

 


You can see more of my Paintings visiting my  GALLERY  there are several Galleries here on my Blog! You find  them in the drop down menu under Watercolors.

All my collections of watercolors paintings and illustrations are available for Pre-Order in Limited Edition Art Prints   here on my Blog!
Some of them are also available on my Etsy Shop CarolinaRussoArt.

Please follow me on my Instagram account dedicated to my Art! @carolinarussoart 

 

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Happy weekend!

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New Mermaid – Work in Progress! #MerMay2017

  

Mermaid – WIP Stage 2 Begin Watercoloring – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

– May new watercolor month challenge :  MerMay2017!

This month of May I have several creative projects going on and one of them is that I am participating whenever possible to the #mermay2017 Challenge. I came across this inspiring challenge following artists friends on Instagram! As you know I love mermaids they are fascinating ,and I have painted several which I have reposted for the first few days of this challenge! Today I am sharing my latest and new Mermaid drawing isn’t finish and  still a work in progress. I am already working on stage two “Watercolor”. I am also sharing the pencil sketch that I begin with. This time I decided to do something different and use “Gray Toned Paper” I love toned paper you can create beautiful effects with it! I especially love the white and black ink effect on toned tan and gray paper, but I also like to experiment and I wanted to see how my watercolor style works with this paper. Toned paper is not made for watercolor is a paper for dry media, but it’s not a super thin paper and if you use watercolors you have to find the right balance between color and water, painting more dry than wet. I like it so far and looking forward to see this piece how turn out when I am done! ❤

Mermaid – WIP Stage 1 Pencil Sketch – Original ©Carolina Russo

***A note: excuse if the photos quality in this post isn’t  as my usual.  I am dealing with a problem on my computer that is annoying me a lot and at the moment I am using a backup computer! Windows 10 decided to reboot and stay in Safe Mode and lock me out of my desktop :-((( without option to get to login, is crazy and I am trying to figure out what to do to get off the safe mode, I read that many Windows 10 users had this problem if any of you ever experienced this and solved the problem, please let me know! Hope to get back to normal soon!

Waiting for Mermaids – Malibu California – Photo ©Carolina Russo

Waiting for Mermaids….<3 while working on my new watercolor mermaid, I keep nurture the inspiration looking at this photo I took a month ago in beautiful Malibu. I love to share it with you and maybe inspire you a little…

Details about my Sketch and Watercolor:
 I Sketched on a Strathmore 400 Series medium surface 80 lb – gray toned paper large sketchbook size 9 x 12 inches for dry media.  I used a  Draft/Matic Pencil  0.5mm  Mab Graves Limited Edition by ALVIN for my sketch  and I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle.

You can see more of my Paintings visiting my  GALLERY  there are several Galleries you find  them in the drop down menu under Watercolors.

All my watercolors are available for Pre-Order in Limited Edition Art Prints 

Please to stay up to date also follow me on Instagram account dedicated to my Art! @carolinarussoart

 

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#mermay2017

Happy mermaids month! ❤

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