Shirlee Adams

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Shirlee Adams

• Alberta Water Colour artist

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Mixed Media, Painter Sherwood Park, Alberta

• SHIRLEE ADAMS (Adamson)
• ShirLee was born in Chicago, Illinois. She
  majored in Art.
• Her studies included oils, acrylics, china
  painting, but her real love, is watercolours and
  Dyes on Silk.
• ShirLee married an Albertan, Martin Adamson, and
  after living in Edmonton area since 1959, she
  became a Canadian Citizen.
• She is an active member of the Society of Western
  Canadian Artists. She likes to try new mediums,
  and new ideas which continually stretch her
  talents and makes Art so compelling for her.

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Use an artists work to learn about Water colour
techniques
Early sunrise of the acreage
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Water colour tools
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Water colours can travel too!
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Create an Alberta Landscape
Whirlpool River in Jasper
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Wet on wet technique
A dramatic sky
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Add a wash to create a blue sky.
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Leave a white space for clouds
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Dramatic skies with very little paint.
Midnight magic
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Storm brewing
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A starry night can be created with salt sprinkled
on the wet page.
Hale Bopp in silhouette
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Create a wash of green for the grass
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Add a hill of a second green behind the first.
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A very light touch creates mountains
Winter solitude
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Now add water colour trees
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Add skinny tree trunks
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Add small branches
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Add leaves by dappling
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Add some darker green for shadows
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Close up of dappled leaves
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A friendly Crow
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Add some shadows under the trees
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Consider where the light is coming from.
Sunbeams through the Birch
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Add some yellow highlights towards the light
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Add colours for interest in the sky and
reflection in the water.
After the storm in Kindersbrook
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Paint reflections in the water
Tranquil water Lac Beauvert
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References

• http//cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/showcases/te
  chniques/drawings/watercolours/drawing_water_intro
  _e.jsp