Caroline Jasper has new work just in time for the holidays. I learned a lot from her time here with us at Creative Catalyst Productions and even more while I edited her video, "Color Moves: Painting Water with Oil." Her DVD was the first one that introduced me to colored grounds. Caroline will start her oil paintings on a bright red or bright orange gessoed background. She then builds her color from there. You can see traces of the original background in the luminescent lines around trees or edges of boats in water. I really love her work.

Painting starting in top left, clockwise: Little Beach, Hidden, Little Shelter, Wait

This Week's Sales

Oops. I forgot to put this up earlier in the week.

We've got some big sales going on right now at work. This week we bring you Cheng-Khee Chee Vol. 1 and Martha Saudek's "Sunlight on Oak Creek."

Chee filmed 6 workshops while he was here at Creative Catalyst Productions. All deal with different styles of watercolor.

Martha works in oils and in her workshops talks a lot about source material, finding the right canvas shape for your subject matter and then walks you through her entire painting process.

More next week!