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Todd Anderson
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Cefalú Sunset. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of rooftops in Cefalú, Sicily. The bright orange sun is behind the viewer and casts dark purple shadows along yellow sandstone buildings, clamoring upward in smaller and smaller units with orange and red tile roofs. A cream and orange striped awning drapes a window, hidden, above a balcony on the right. Windows dot the facades and fade to non-descript shapes in the shade.
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Output from a demo I gave on Sunday at the Annual meeting of the Vermont Watercolor Society.

Had a wonderful time demonstrating my direct watercolor approach on this 20"x16" piece in front of a great crowd of people and watercolor enthusiasts!

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Watercolor painting of buildings in downtown St Albans, Vermont. On the left stands an imposing, red brick building with large Arches windows - the right-most window dissolved of shape as it reflects the bright sun back from behind the viewer. To the right is a shorter building in white-painted brick, with a slight red brick facade encasing a street-level window. The bright blue sky above dips I'm between the buildings, revealing a darkened side street. The large building on the left as a street level storefront beneath a grey canopy covering its windows in shadows.
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM Everybody can reply
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Garage in Hubbard Corner. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a garage along Ethan Allen Hwy, in Vermont. A multi-level house in gray clapboard stands to the right, with a large wooden business sign above a single level attachment for business. The house has a steep, slate roof with a chimney lining its side to the right and rising in the center of the scene. A single left garage takes up the horizontal band of the right side, with an open cavity - the inside in warm shadows of various wood pallets piled up. A truck sits parked in front to the right. angular, cool blue and purple shadows are cast from a sun on the left, out of view, and within a bright blue sky, hung above that garage and house.
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM Everybody can reply
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Grindelwald, Switzerland. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of the town of Grindelwald, Switzerland covered in dark purple shadows at the base of Wetterhorn rising above in snowy covered crags, drenched in sunlight below a bright blue sky. To the right, another mountain reflects back the warmth of orange sunlight, as the town and forest rest below
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Palermo Flower Stall. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a flower stall along Via Cipressi in Palermo, Sicily. A large, imposing building in bright ochre stucco fills the scene as a backdrop to a small flower stand with a turquoise canopy covering pots and patrons in dark shadow. To large, Arches windows reside on the upper floor separated from the ground level by a large, horizontal band of purple shadows, wending in and out of recessed columns.
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM Everybody can reply
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Gas Station Traffic Cones, Winooski. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a gas station and convenience store in Winooski, Vermont. The pump station overhangs stands on the right covering poles, pumps and traffic cones below in blue-purple shadow cast from a bright sun overhead and out of view. In the background is a brick facade of the convenience store with fliers, buckets and propane bins on the left. Behind the pump in shadow is a well lit interior of the store. The foreground is littered with orange and reflective white traffic cones, in shadow.
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM Everybody can reply
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Civil Dusk on Calle Huerto, Granada. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of Calle Huerto alley in Granada, Spain. A light blue civil dusk sky hangs above two intersecting, blocky apartment buildings; the automatic street light attached midway up the right-side apartment building's oblique wall floods the apartment facades with warm yellow-orange light and falling against a wooden entry, window panes and a garage door on the left behind a car in shadows. The light in the scene reveals that this street may soon be covered in darkness soon - except for the sole street lamp - once the sun is completely behind the horizon.
October 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM Everybody can reply
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Montpelier Skyline. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of buildings in downtown Montpelier, Vermont. An angular, imposing building on the right has a pastel purple painted brick facade with white sashed windows. In the background are red-brick buildings and a tall chimney. In the foreground, standing in the center is a telephone pole with a white,. cylindrical transformer and electrical lines emanating.
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM Everybody can reply
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Piazza Guglielmo II, Monreale, Sicily. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a building along Via Dante Alighieri in the main piazza of Monreale, Sicily. A large blue-purple shadow runs diagonally from the upper left along a tall orange-ochre building and falls upon the sidewalk and street in the foreground. White canopies cover tables and a ground storefront in shadow with a large sandwich board set out announcing the menu of a cafe. The stepped stories of the building have various tall rectangular windows in varying colors reflecting back the sky, which hangs in bright blue above.
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM Everybody can reply
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Blake Roy Barn. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a large barn in rural, central Vermont. A large multistory barn with vertical wood slats occupies the right-side of the scene. Large equipment fans nestle above its ground floor windows and white door entry. To the left is a single floor enclosure with a rusted steel roof catching an angled blue shadow from the larger structure. Behind, a big blue sky hangs above a silo in the background.
September 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM Everybody can reply
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Vis & Snacks, Wharf. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press

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Watercolor painting of a fish monger business along the wharf in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. A large, blank white billboard hangs above a one story warehouse. The warehouse is a faded cream white building with a long, rectangular blue canopy extending from the right and casting a sun-filled purple shadow on various signs and a single door entry.
September 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM Everybody can reply
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So yes, I've been depressed about the regime. And was stuck for a long time. What got me out of it was good cooking.
Roast Curry Chicken.
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Curry Chicken: Good Food is Good Medicine
One thing that is still available to us during this crazy time is cooking. Good food is good medicine. I think I made that up but who knows? Curry Roasted Chicken, YUM. Place chicken upside down in…
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Bonte Ossteeg, Delft. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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February 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM Everybody can reply
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Along Prinsegracht, The Hague. Direct Watercolor. 10"x8", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of buildings along Prinsegracht in The Hague, Netherlands. A cloudless blue sky hangs above two buildings at a cross section along a wide street. The buildings are separated by an alley, darkened by the bright sunlight coming from the right. The three story building on the left has a red tiled roof and ochre facade. The building on the right is amassed in different levels and shapes, with a tall structure and pointed metal roof closer to the center of view. A large red door with darkened windows resides in the lower right, below large windows reflecting back the blue sky. In the foreground is a street with a blocky purple shadow running from right to left.
June 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM Everybody can reply
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Mill Street Corner. Direct Watercolor. 10"x8", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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April 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM Everybody can reply
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Salon in Town. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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July 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM Everybody can reply
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Alley off Iglesia de la Caridad, Sevilla. Direct Watercolor. 10"x8", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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March 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM Everybody can reply
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Main Street Storefronts. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press

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February 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM Everybody can reply
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It’s so warm out today! 1st outdoor painting this year.
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March 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM Everybody can reply
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Kim K. Roberts
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Second Beach at Olympic NP. Just my Arting with Friends gang having a little bit of Sunday art fun together with a photo I took last month.

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April 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM Everybody can reply
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Pen and ink is my jam… In direct watercolor no INK. Pushing me out of my comfort zone a couple of times a month is good for me, like eating veggies (I love veggies but you get it). #artjournal #danielsmithwatercolors #directwatercolor #HahnemühleWatercolourBook #laughingkookaburra #nightheron
February 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply
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Flower Vendor on Veenkade, The Hague. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a flower Vendor along Veenkade in The Hague, Netherlands. Two large, square windows with drapes drawn are stacked above a ground floor flower shop with a green-blue and white striped canopy extending over the side walk and casting shadows along windows and wares.
March 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM Everybody can reply
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House in Zaanse Schans. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches old Press.

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Watercolor painting of a house in Zaanse Schans, Netherlands. A single level dwelling with a tall, sloping roof in orange tile occupies two-thirds of the middle, horizontal band of the view. The house has dark, blue-gray wood siding, and two elongated windows in white trim with red shutters, opened. The top two panes of each window are covered in a green yellow light, while the bottom panes are in shadow. The house has an attached, windowless garage in the same siding and orange roofing. Ochre chimneys rise from both the garage and house, and a thin sliver of a white trim facade stands to the right. Bright sunlight from the right casts angled shadows from the chimneys and garage extension.
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM Everybody can reply
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Along Groot Hertoginnelaan. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of an apartment block along Groot Hertoginnelaan in The Hague. A large, orange brick building is sun drenched with elongated upper two-story windows reflecting back light from closed shades. The ground floor is speckled in blue-purple shadows from a building behind the viewer. To the left is a vacant store interplayed with an interior blocking out shadow and light. To the right is an entrance to the apartment building with a yellow-orange door and small thin, vertical window. Rising in an expansive empty area of brick spanning the upper two floors, is a shadow of a lamppost. The street and sidewalk in the foreground echo back the light reflected in the storefront windows.
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM Everybody can reply
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Corner Store, Laan van Meerdervoort. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a corner store at the corner of Laan van Meerdervoort and Beeklaan in The Hague, Netherlands. Large, bright orange canopies extend out, wrapping storefront windows and an entry to a corner store. The sun, coming from behind the right shoulder of the viewer drenches the top facing parts of the segmented canopies and draws angle light across the storefront and sidewalk signs. On the second floor are tall apartment windows, separated from the canopies by a large concrete banding holding shop signs. To the right, the bright blue sky can be seen in the background.
January 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM Everybody can reply
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