Watercolors by Susan Roper

I saw this photo online and wanted to recreate it in watercolor. This will be a study and will not be sold as I will always protect the copyright privileges of the photographer. What I found...

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I finished this yesterday, I'm hoping the way I'm seeing this while posting doesn't show up with such strong colors when it's posted; in person, it is very high key and soft. I'm liking this b...

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Worked on this a bit this morning. While viewing this across the room I noticed that I had inadvertently made the desert trail looked like a manicured driveway, so that was the first thing I c...

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I'm just getting the bones of this painting established and moving on to more detail. I'm thinking I will continue in this soft color palette and see what I think as it progresses. I usually go...

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 I think I have played around this enough to call it finished, It was done mainly to expand my skill in painting on Yupo and have fun doing something different than painting on paper. Now ont...

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I will post this work in progress today to keep track of the changes since I am making this one up as I go. I have no particular end result in mind; rather this is an exercise to try out a lot...

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  I did the bottom two thirds of this painting about nine years ago and have had it framed and hanging in  my home. I kept thinking it was bothersome that I had left the sky just a plain, h...

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 This was the first painting I have created in about two years. I am really trying to get back what I've lost through inactivity, and I like this first attempt. Hopefully this will just be th...

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This is a painting from a few years ago that is a test to see how to insert a photo into my blog again. Its been so long since I have done it I'm a bit rusty. This was the last painting I did t...

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 As I revisit this blog, I am ashamed to see how many YEARS it has been since I last posted here. This is my effort to restart my badly interrupted art journey and reconnect with my former passi...

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I met with my hand surgeon, who knows how long I have needed but been unable to have this surgery. He is ready to go, and has scheduled my surgery for this coming Thursday, July 24th! I am so loo...

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I see it has been six months since I last posted here. It has been such a  mementous six months in our lives. My Tom was hospitalized and rehospitalized for a total of 50 days after my last post...

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This is a painiting for which I used Maryann Watkins special photograph taken at sunset at the Desert Botanical Gardens. I exercised my "artistic license" quite a bit with this since there was ...

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Yesterday I participated in my art group's (ArtChix) art show/sale. It was well-attended, I was especially honored to have an old high school friend attend. It was great touching bases wi...

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As you can see on my sidebar, I find interesting, non-art related sites that I visit regularly. While anything slow-cooking related has nothing to do with painting, I have learned so much from Se...

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A big thank you to Maryann Watkins for sharing her excellent photo from her trip to a butterfly refuge. This is a small (7 x 5) painting in watercolor. I would not want any entomologist to...

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I must be in a purple phase or something. This is the first in a series of small (5x7) paintings I am doing to get ready for our first ArtChix sale of the year in November. I want to do some ...

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  I have been working on this one for a couple of weeks; got it to the point where I can see if there is anything else I want to do before removing it from the painting board and matting it....

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So far this summer I have been working on ATCs (Artists Trading Cards) for a group I was invited to join. I have now completed them, and wanted to do a larger painting again. I am helping a fri...

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We have our neighbors' flag here, amidst the sunset contrails of jets from Luke Air Force Base which trains those who protect us all. I wish peace and comfort to all those who have lost thos...

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 These nine art friends and I visited the "Cowgirls Up!  exhibit. We carpooled to Wickenburg, AZ for this exhibit, which left all of us "artists" both inspired and intim...

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Every year our huge Ocotilla gets prettier and prettier. This year I am taking a photo as most of the blooms have opened up now. We had a tremendous windstorm last week which blew quite a few o...

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 Aubrey and Zane came to visit last Thursday and we had such fun! Aubrey was in her princess dress when they arrived, and very much looked the part. Aubrey had been given a pair of flip-flop...

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This is a painting I finished (?) yesterday at the Thursday afternoon watercolor group painting session/therapy session/comedy club. My reference was an excellent photo by Terry Dekker at Pa...

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I am calling this WIP 3 since I haven't completely decided if it is finished yet, or not. I like it the way it is, but maybe I have missed something?

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