It is hard to see from these photograph, but I want you to notice the paper is very wet now and rippled under the tape. It is very important to let the painting dry completely before removing the tape. I generally leave the paintings over night.
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Step 1: Supplies
vase of flowers for inspiration (even a photo of a flower arrangement will work)
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Tape the paper to a flat surface. It is important to tape the paper and not remove the tape until the paper is completely dry. Watercolor paper stretches the it gets wet (you will see in later photos) It shrinks back to its flat shape as it dries. If you remove the tape when it is wet it will dry rippled instead of flat.
Next LIGHTLY draw a vase shape.
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Step 3: Wet the Paper
Using the largest brush you have, wet the entire back ground of the paper, trying hard to avoid getting any water in the vase shape.
Keep that space as dry as possible.
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Step 4: Begin Painting
Using that same large brush, make a puddle of paint with the watercolors. You want it very light to represent the “air” around the vase and create your background. More colors can be added as you work on the painting, however, be aware of the colors you use. If too many colors are mixed on the paper they may begin to turn muddy. I stay away from Black and Brown for my “air” Also I try not to use too much green because I know I will be using green in my flower design.
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Woodmere Art Museum
The Woodmere’s current exhibit, “Kidding Around: Children in Art from Woodmere’s Collection,” highlighting various depictions of childhood from its permanent collection, runs through May 14. There are also especially adorable paintings of kids and their dogs. French painter Gustave Doyen’s The First Born captures the loving gaze of parents with their newborn in a 19th-century Renaissance-style portrait.
In Portrait of Mrs. Carles and Sara, Philadelphia-born modernist painter Arthur B. Carles painted his mother and sister working together to stitch white fabric.
Woodmere also contains many works by Violet Oakley, including early 1900 murals Man and Science and The Child and Tradition. The artist often painted her mother, using her as a model, and she is present in both these murals.
African American Museum in Philadelphia
Though not about motherhood specifically, the AAMP-PAFA exhibit “Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America” features two artists who are mother and son. Photographer Deborah Willis and conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas have separate artwork on display. Thomas is one of the artists behind Question Bridge: Black Males, 2012, a five-channel video installation. Willis welcomes visitors in the museum entrance with Facing the Rising Sun, 2022, also a video work, accompanied by a wall of historical photographs.
PAFA’s Annual Student Exhibition begins Mother’s Day weekend and graduate student Katya Dennison, originally from Florida, is showing her detailed copy of Cecilia Beaux’s Les derniers jours d’enfance, which she painted for a “Painting from the Collection” course. Beaux painted her sister and nephew, and who gifted his aunt’s painting to PAFA. The original work is part of PAFA’s collection but is not currently on display.
Mural Arts
Two exhibits from Mural Arts examine the toll of gun violence in Philadelphia. On May 11 at 11 a.m., “SHOT: We the Mothers” opens at First United Methodist Church Germantown, and it will run through spring. The show features photographs by Kathy Shorr of 51 mothers in the Philadelphia area whose children died from gun violence. Shorr took the portraits at locations that were special to each child.
On May 12, Zarinah Lomax’s art organization, the Apologues, will show “A Mother’s Love,” bringing painted portraits of 55 families who lost children to shootings to the City Hall Courtyard. It will be a one-day event from noon to 3 p.m.
