Yesterday I took day one of a watercolor workshop with Carol Carpenter, and I really enjoyed loosening up with her exercises and seeing her brushstrokes and how she approaches a painting. She gave us copious notes on all aspects of what she was showing us which was very nice.
The top two are exercises in softening edges of circles, changing the shape, going back in and adding if you wanted…some became flowers. The second is called “three amigos”. blobs of three colors which became torsos with the addition of heads and legs and their shadows…all done while holding the brush high up on the handle to loosen up. I used a dagger brush for these. way fun!
Another exercise was to make a painting of three flowers in 15 mins with using only 15 brush strokes….this keeps you thinking of how to get colors spread out and keeping the brush on the paper. she does this exercise to warm up several times a week, and I can see how helpful it would be to incorporate into my studio time.
The bottom is an in process piece of snow on mountains in shadow. I’ll do more work on this today.
Rachel Murphree Watercolors 
I will definitely try painting the “tres amigos”. Thanks for sharing this.
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good! you’re welcome.
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