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Barbara Giller, one of my students...yea!...is sharing her painting below. Love getting the painting and the reference photo. Glad you took a break from your garden to paint...Nice.

She said: So I have had enough of my garden for a few days and did a painting....

attached is picture of and H2O painting of one of my sunflowers.

Hope to see you in the fall class.... if I can get my schedule situated.

See you soon
Barbara  

I love this quote that Barbara has attached to her e-mail...

Be the kind of woman when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~  "Oh Crap, She's up!"

Question: Stephanie asked a question....how to get the brown kraft paper off the edges of her watercolor paintings?
Below is my best response. If you have any solutions let me know and I will pass it on.

Back in the day, I think the tape was of better quality and it released from the watercolor paper....not so much now. Sorry to say, you will probably never get it off without possible damage to your painting. I crop and cut it off. Another thing I do is I tape the wet paper down to stretch as usual with the brown kraft tape and when it is dry, I use blue painters tape to tape evenly around the white of the paper.  That way a nice clean white border is established when I am finished.  I take it off the board and I cut off the brown tape. I  also reduce my watercolor paper size to the common frame sizes (8 x 10...11x 14 etc) when I put the blue tape down. Reason is, so buyers (or yourself) can buy frames off the shelf and have more of a variety to choose from. Hope this helps.

Quiz: What is a fugitive color?...Watch for the answer.