This is how I painted one of my Garden series painting. Unfortunatelly, I have only this kind of photos, I forgot to take proper photo, when I finished and this Garden is on sale now in Vienna, Austria. So let´s have a look how I create some of my paintings. 

1. Colours flow and I paint totally by actual imagination. No big planning, just playing on wet surface. 

2. I have to wait until some parts are dry and I put other layers. Notice how I work with yellows on wet blues. This is one of my favourite combinations, reminds of stairy shiny sky,

3. Adding more colours - greens remind garden. The shades are done in my favourite Payne´s Grey.

4. More yellows, and green, all on wet paper.

5. More greens, yellow and turquoise. This painting gets definitelly garden look.

6. All done, I left it to dry. Unfortunatelly I did not take a proper photo of it and it is on sale in Vienna. I hope it will find someone happy to buy it. 

In case of any technical questions, feel free to ask at www.zzen.deviantart.com, where I have profile and gallery. I will be happy to answer. Zuzana.

Yellow House

This is one of my older paintings - sketch was done plein air, later I added more colours in studio.
Three stages of my work indicate the way I paint with watercolours. I don´t do pencil sketch, I paint directly.
This house is located in Old Town in Bratislava, Slovakia.

1. stage: Main lines are sketched with Payne´s Grey, 

later I added some more colours.

                                       2. stage: I added more colours and painted shades.

                                         
                                         3. stage: Finished painting.

Old Town in Bratislava - plein air + studio

This watercolour I painted partly plein air in the Bratislava Old Town. It is a view from Rudnayovo námestie (Rudnayovo Square) towards the stairs to St. Martin´s Cathedral. Then I took it home and finished it.

 1. That is how I finished it on the spot. I took it home and continued. I used mainly Payne´s Grey, some greens and ochres.

2. Later at home I added some more colours to it.

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3. Finished painting. 

Blue Garden - step by step

Beginning of painting.

 Second stage.

 Third stage.

 Third stage.

 Fourth stage.

Finished painting of Blue Garden.

 When I paint at home during summer, I use my open air atelier, which is a big table on my balcony. Sometimes I work on few paintings at once. With watercolorous you have to watch, how dry is your paper, otherwise damage could be done easily.

 When I paint at home during summer, I use my open air atelier, which is a big table on my balcony. I have nice view to the sky and I can see the whole Bratislava under my feet.

Painting in Bratislava on Hviezdoslav Square

 Slovak National Theatre. I was painting directly under statue of Hviezdoslav - Slovak poet - at Hviezdoslav Square in Bratislava.

 Slovak National Theatre. I was painting directly under statue of Hviezdoslav - Slovak poet - at Hviezdoslav Square in Bratislava.

Sketches from Bratislava Old Town

 View from Summer Reading Garden Červený rak in Bratislava. Quick sketch during one summer afternoon. Old bridge over former water moat, reading garden is down in medieval water moat, part of the fortitification system of Pressburg (one of the old names of Bratislava) - the moat is now dry :)

 Detail of the sculpture in Summer Reading Garden Červený rak.

 This little sketch I did sipping coffee at summer terrace of San Marten Restaurant at Panská Street in Bratislava. View is to Panská Street which is situated on the old historical merchants route.

Detail of the lamp in Bratislava Old Town.