Views of Waterville, MN

This view of Faribault Park

is done by oil pastels.

I did few soft pastels' pictures this summer. Here are few pictures of small town of Waterville, some portraits of Waterville citizens and ... simply pictures done by soft pastels during the last 6 months.

This is a corner of Main and the 3-rd Streets. Hope, soon it will be a coffee shop here.

These are two buildings in Main Street.

Methodist Chirch is also in the Main Street.

The name of this cool guy is Peter Axel Streed. He ownes a bait shop at 13 HW in Waterville. The name of the shop is "Axel's Tackle Box". He also is my husband and I did my best to show him as he is. He-he!

The name of this lady is Molly Preuss. She celeprated her 91st anniversary this year. Beautiful, very beautiful lady she is.

This laughing guy is David Longsjoen. I don't know much about him. Good luck, David!

The next pictures were painted for fun - a bass and frogs.

Welcome to Waterville, MN!

Murals on the wooden walls-2

Here is a front view on the shed. I am going to turn it into bricks' building. Doors will be turnrd into cast iron grid.

I will use acrylic paints, roller, flat brushes, sponge, masking tape and ... some partience.

Grid will pe painted by brushes. Sketch was made by pensil directly upon the doors. I used a stencil cut from paper to transfer grid picture.

Well the work is done. It would be more easier not to paint grid by brush, but use a stencil and a sponge. I also think, that background besides the grid should be very light with not many details. In any case, customer is happy, people stop to watch his "new shed".

Murals on the wooden walls

On July 25, 2010 I started to paint walls of a wooden shed.

Here it is - the ordinary wooden one. Walls of the shed are made from boards, so the surface is not plane.

I am going "to turn" shed into bricks' one. This side also should get a window with a sea view.

Roller, few flat brushes, sponge, masking tape and paints (orange, white and brown) - that is all I need to turn the shed into small bricks building.

Wall was painted in orange, white and brown spots on bricks were were made by sponge.

Window shades are brown, lights are white. I cut a paper stencil of the window arch and used it also for shades painting.

Sea "will live" inside of the house and people sitting outside in the evening time will wait for BBQ and watch a sea view through the window (but not a sad wooden wall).

Here it is!

Few details of a sea view are below.

Well a wall is painted. But these wall is not seen from the road, so I was asked to paint "something interesting" also at the front side of the shed.

Murals on the metal container

That is a story of metal shipping container. It was big and ugly.
We couldn't move it aside and I had nothing to do but to paint it.
Sides of the container were sanded, washed and primed by oil-based primer. Then it was painted light blue by latex paint (FLAT!!!). I was painting by brushes.

The job was finished in 7 days. So it looks now.

Hope it will advertise my painting business, bait store of my husband and fishing in Waterville, MN!

Whitewater Creek is a short river besides our store

This narrow Whitewater Creek in summer becomes shallow and covered by duckweed.
Running water is warm and no stream can stop its blossoming. Lake of Tetonka remains free and fresh.
View of this short creek and opening lake seemed to me beautiful. I decided to paint this "feeling" of hot summer day, opening water plane and peaceful creek.
Sketch is very simple - it marks the main "heroes" of the future picture: remote lake, riverside shrubs and a spot of free water in the foreground.

I also make clear the main correlation between warm and cold colors.
Remote objects turn into blue.
Lights are warm, shades are cold.

My main "hero" is a spot of free water - it gives place for sky, reflections of shrubs, few drops of duckweed. I harry to start painting.

Riverside shrubs are starting to appear.

Foreground water bocomes deeper, left part is warm, right is cold. Blue upon the orange will stay blue, but will become warm. Orange as a background makes cold colors look warmer.

Shrubs also assume volume.

Here it is my "tool" to draw the details in the foreground, riverside rush and shrubs.

This is another "tool" to make some details like shades and remote objects blurred.

Whitewater Creek is ready.