Jason Dunavin

All DaVinci paints: Prussian blue, perylene maroon, perylene green, green gold, benzimida orange deep.

Carrying, 7.5in x 11in watercolor on Kilimanjaro 300gsm cold-pressed paper. 1 of 8 in a series using a specific palette, listed in the comments.
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Watercolor sketch of a bus stop with apartments in the background

Watercolor sketch of a state park cabin with trees in the mid and background

Watercolor sketch of a worn path with grass poking through, fields on either side and a distant tree line

Watercolor sketch of a shade dappled road stretching into the distance with timber on both sides

Some sketchbook pages of places real and imagined.
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Moon glowing, 8x8 watercolor on Baohong 300gsm rough paper.
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Deep woods, 8x8 watercolor on Baohong 300gsm rough paper.
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It was the first week of August and brutally hot, roughly 95 degrees. The hike up the steep steps didn't seem that far but considering my age and physical condition the palace nearly had one more sacrifice. Numerous smaller buildings surround the palace, as well as a Maya 'ball court'.

Xunantunich is an active archaeological site; there were multiple digs going while we were there. It's estimated that only about 30% of what is here is actually visible above ground. Stone markers left by the Maya show it was inhabited as of 630 AD and possibly another thousand years before. 3/4

I like to do the small studies to figure out the values, to test potential colors, and to practice drawing from the reference. I then did a somewhat larger 'test painting' to see if I liked the result of my plan. The foreground building became a mass of foliage in the final painting. 2/4

1. Xunantunich II, 12in x 16in on NY Central 300gsm cold-pressed paper
2. Xunantunich I, 9in x 12in on Kilimanjaro 300gsm cold-pressed paper
3. Xunantunich studies, 12in x 16in on NY Central 300gsm cold-pressed paper.
From our family trip to Belize this past summer. 1/4
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Branching out, 8x8 watercolor on Baohong 300gsm rough paper. Plus: New blog post for this week over at my website - link in comments.
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Muddy, 6in x 9in watercolor on Kilimanjaro 300gsm cold-pressed paper.
4/4 of a series exploring a specific palette.
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Lake walk, 6inx8in watercolor on NY Central 300 gsm cold pressed paper. 3/4 of a series exploring a specific palette.
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Thanks! I wasn’t sure where to go in my exodus from IG so went to multiple platforms.

Also - this week's blog post, on the use of social media, because there aren't enough posts on the Internet about that.
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Range, 5.5in x7.5in watercolor on Kilimanjaro 300gsm cold-pressed paper. 2nd of 4 in a series exploring a limited palette.
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Also: This week's blog post on my use of social media.

Naples yellow, burnt umber, lavender, green gold.

Cove, 5.5" x 11" watercolor on Kilimanjaro 300gsm cold-pressed paper. This is one of a series of 4 using this palette, which I list below.
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Pleased to tell you about the re-launch of my art website! I'll be posting work there for sale, plus new blog posts every Thursday or as close to that as I can manage. I'll still be posting sketches, paintings, and stuff here too, until the Careless People arrive at least.
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Several small watercolor studies showing the result of mixing complementary colors or color triads.

A few little color studies, 12x16in watercolor on New York Central 300gsm cold pressed paper.
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Sometimes when I don't have enough time to dive into a painting I will do these small studies and just see what happens when colors mix on the paper.

Giralda Tower, 11x15 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 300gsm cold pressed paper.
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Demo from Matthew White's Watercolor Community. This one went awry to say the least, but it was fun.

Noise canceling hearing aids. Mom had this issue until she got them.

Mooney, 8x8 watercolor on Baohong 300gsm rough paper.
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Field of storms, 8x8 watercolor on Baohong 300gsm rough paper.
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Lawrence post office, 11in x 15in watercolor on Baohong 300gsm rough paper.
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Worst is when I rinse my paintbrush in my beer.

Deep, 8x8 watercolor on Baohong 300gsm rough paper.
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Nowadays the signs of modernity are everywhere. But my daughter had been reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, which made us think about what living in this house must have been like. For a time, we let ourselves be dwarfed by the prairie expanse, as those who lived here might have been.

Watercolor of a crumbling prairie house with distant dark clouds and grazing cattle against a hazy, yellowish sky.

Color studies of a lone house on the prairie - ultramarine and burnt sienna, violet and yellow, blue and orange.

Various color studies of a lone house on the prairie - three true(ish) color studies, one yellow and green

Pencil sketch and value study of a lone house on the prairie.

Claim reclaimed, 16in x 9in watercolor on Kilimanjaro 300gsm cold-pressed paper. I included two color studies and my first thumbnail sketch of this crumbling house found on highway K-140 between Lindsborg and Kanopolis State Park. 1/2
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A long stretch of yellow sand beach with turquoise water leads off into the distance, with a steep-sided hill at the end. In the distance are some mountains partially hidden by layers of grey clouds (and some visible rain).

On this day in 2017 I visited this beach - on my first ever trip to the Westfjords. After seeing all the black sand beaches it was quite a surprise to find a white (well, yellow) sand one!

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