Beryl Kerwick

2011-10-17T20:29:00.000-05:00

Plein Air Painting Competition - 2nd place award

2011-10-17T20:18:00.001-05:00

Last weekend I was in a plein air painting competion in Round Rock, Texas. The artists painted various scenes around the old downtown area with a number of buildings both old and new. On the main street I painted a building which is now a popular restaurant. It has a combination of brick and stone work. The the early morning sunlight produced some interesting shadows especially in the doorway. The first painting depicts the street with the iconic Round Rock water tower in the background. This painting was awarded the 2nd prize in this competition. I also painted a close-up view of the door and entry way which I think is a stronger painting! Of course I was not the judge.

Award winner -RR Paintout Competition

2011-10-17T20:16:00.000-05:00

Plein Air Paintings, Provence. In May I spent 2 weeks in France with good friends, also artists. The paintings below were done in the beautiful villages and charming countryside in Provence.

2011-06-26T17:02:00.000-05:00

New Painting "Take A Chance Card"

2011-06-16T10:40:00.000-05:00

Blue Room

2011-06-16T09:37:00.001-05:00

Spring 2011 Watercolor Show

2011-04-05T19:41:00.001-05:00

Waterloo Watercolor Group Spring 2011 Juried Show
May 2 - July 10, 2011
Corridor of Art, Chase Bank Bldg. 700 Lavaca St., Austin, TX
Had three paintings juried into this show and won a merit award with one of them.

ART SHOW AND SALE March/11-12

2011-03-09T20:30:00.000-06:00

COMING RIGHT UP! Capitol Art Society members (myself and 9 others) will host an Art Show and Sale. Info below:
Dates: Friday 3/11 10am-7pm Artist Reception 5pm-7pm
Sat 3/12 10am-5pm
Where: Apache Shores Community Hall, 14919 General Williamson Hall (off RR620S)

Come and take a look at out artwork - I will have watercolor paintings, some small pleinair studies, a few oils and some sale priced pieces.
Signs will be up to guide you.

More Plein Air Paintings

2011-01-31T14:20:00.000-06:00

Recent Award Winner 'The Watchers' watercolor

2011-01-09T19:34:00.001-06:00

On my return trip from Long Island I lost my camera, somehow, with some good pics that I had hoped to paint from. Had to use visual memory for paintings. Here is one from a memory of early evening - with a little imagination thrown in. This painting "The Watchers" won 3rd prize in the WWG Fall juried show. Cash prize money paid for the replacement camera which eased the pain a little!

Plein Paintings from North Fork, L.I. Trip

2011-01-09T11:36:00.000-06:00

Visit to the North Fork, Long Island

2010-10-13T16:45:00.000-05:00

Recently I visited friends Carol and Ted at their summer home in East Marion, L.I., N.Y. The North Fork of Long Island is surrounded by water on three sides with lots of sailboats and watercraft of all kinds. I painted each day. The view of Shelter Island was a favorite as well as the picturesque buildings in the town of Orient.

2010-10-13T16:24:00.000-05:00

In May 2010, I was awarded the Dee Phillips Memorial prize for transparent watercolor for my painting "Card Players". It was an honor to receive this award.

Award Winner Transparent Watercolor, Spring 2010

2010-10-13T16:20:00.000-05:00

Another view of Mission San Jose

2010-03-30T09:44:00.000-05:00

2010-03-30T09:42:00.001-05:00

Painted at Mission San Jose on March 27,2010

2010-03-30T09:37:00.001-05:00

Mission San Jose

2010-03-30T09:34:00.000-05:00

Plein Air Painting

2010-02-21T15:31:00.000-06:00

The weather has been unusually cold and wet this winter and I haven't been outside to paint very often. The spirit was willing but the fingers were numb!

At last a beautiful day found several painters hard at work at the Davis Ranch. Lots of varied subject matter to paint including several long views, trees galore and a river and waterfalls. Still, inspite of all the natural beauty I chose to paint an old rusty water tank truck that had been parked many years ago and not moved since. Have wanted to paint an old truck and seen so many well done but never attempted one until now. Quite a challenge to get the proportions right. The ranch owner treated us like royalty artists and provided with a delicious spread of food beyond our wildest imaginings. It is so very nice to recognized as something special even when we are not sure we deserve it. Heartfelt thanks from all who painted and enjoyed the food.

More Paintings of Big Bend

2009-11-09T14:47:00.001-06:00

I have added a few more photos of the paintings done at Big Bend. These were a little too big to fit in my scanner and had to be photographed, downloaded and then uploaded to my blog. Took about as long to do that as some of the paintings took to paint! Hope you will enjoy looking at them.

Sierra del Carmen through Cottonwood Trees

2009-11-09T14:44:00.001-06:00

Rio Grande from Boquillas Overlook

2009-11-09T14:43:00.001-06:00

Santa Elena Canyon from the East

2009-11-09T14:41:00.001-06:00

Window View - afternoon

2009-11-09T14:39:00.001-06:00

My latest fantastic trip - yes, Big Bend

2009-11-07T16:19:00.000-06:00

Returned Friday from a wonderful trip to Big Bend National Park in the SW corner of Texas separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande river. Fabulous, beautiful, stark, colors of rock so varied, so pink, peach, purple, every shade of gray, brown and sometimes scary dark colors without names. Cactus of every kind, pine trees, mesquite, oaks both tall and stunted. In Boot Canyon came across a stand of Maples as colorful in November as any in the NE - not mentioned in my little trail guide and a complete and brilliant surprise!
Painted every day - the weather was perfect - blue skies, 70-80 degrees daytime. Hauled my painting gear to different places each day, endless things to paint. Got up early to paint the famous window view with the moon still hanging in the pale blue and pink sky and then with joined Courtney, who is one of my two best hiking buddies. We hiked up to the South Rim in the High Chisos, a 13.5 mile round trip and saw the most incredible views - the Santa Elena Canyon 20 miles away, the Sierra del Carmen which extends into Mexico and many other peaks and vistas whose names are not known to me. If you haven't been to Big Bend you should go!
I have posted some of the paintings from this trip. These are small enough to be scanned so I did them right away. The others will have to photographed first so I will do that later.
Oh, I sold a painting of the Santa Elena Canyon to a lovely couple from Switzerland who came down to the Canyon just as I had finished painting it. It is so wonderful to find people who will see a painting they like and without hesitation just buy it. I and all artists appreciate that sort of support.

Big Bend Mountains

2009-11-07T15:46:00.001-06:00

Unknown Mountains - Big Bend

2009-11-07T15:45:00.001-06:00

Big Bend - late morning

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Hot sunny afternoon - no shade

2009-11-07T15:40:00.001-06:00

Window View - early morning

2009-11-07T15:37:00.001-06:00

Big Bend Watercolor

2009-11-07T15:34:00.001-06:00

Lago Vista Lakeview

2009-10-26T11:07:00.000-05:00

Deep Eddy Pool - longtime Austin favorite

2009-07-14T13:09:00.000-05:00

Started painting at Deep Eddy about 8.00 am. Quite a few swimmers there already, still fairly cool - around 79 degrees - won't last long. Set up in the shade of some trees on the north side of pool. Wanted to show the contrast between the shade and sunlit water and include some of the swimmers. While painting I usually zone out of whatever is going on around me but I became aware of some conversations going on nearby. At that time of the day most of the swimmers are there to swim laps usually 2 to each lane and I became aware of a line that formed at some of the lanes as swimmers waited for a turn. One women was a little distressed that a swimmer was hogging the middle of the lane and she felt she couldn't swim easily without bumping the other. I recalled when I used to swim at Gregory Gym and the old Anna Hiss pool. Being a very weak swimmer I was always nervous when another swimmer got in my lane and I remember a few remarks about my slowness. The nice thing about painting plein air is that though there is a time element involved I set it myself - two to three hours depending on th composition. Longer than that, the light has changed and its time to finish.

Beryl Kerwick Paintings in Plein Air Austin Show

2009-07-13T10:42:00.000-05:00

Award Winner

2009-05-03T15:28:00.000-05:00

Over the years I have won quite a number of awards for my paintings including 5 Best of Show. This year my painting Blue Room was awarded the 2nd Place prize in the Waterloo Watercolor show.

BLUE ROOM

2009-02-27T14:50:00.000-06:00

Mixing Colors - carrots

Colorful Watercolor

2009-02-27T11:26:00.000-06:00

watercolor painting 30"x 22"

matted and framed $800.

The Pleasure of Mixing Paint Colors

2009-02-27T11:02:00.000-06:00

The simple pleasures of mixing paints......Have you ever been in a class when someone asked what color to use to paint a certain object? Such as in a still life setup of fruits and vegetables. "What color shall I use to paint that carrot?" The great answer is that there is not a paint color called carrot. At least not that I know of. As a painting instructor, though, it is my delight to show how a carrot, a simple carrot, can be painted using mixtures of red and yellow or even cadmium orange if you have it, mixed on the palette or wet-in-wet with a little purple in the shadow, a tiny bit of pale color at the tip and a nice mix of blues and yellows and greens for the frothy carrot tops. My palette is rarely pristine but usually I have enough clear color on it at the start of a painting session so that I can get myself in a good mood just by looking at it and anticipating what I will use.