David Lobenberg

Back to My Blog and Going Online Just putting my toes in the blog waters again. It's been awhile. Like you dear reader, I'm sheltered in place (or whatever the hell you want to call it), because of the big bad Covid-19 pandemic. For the past five or so years I have been criss crossing the country teaching my California Vibe Watercolor Portraiture™ workshop. I have never ever flown so much in my entire life! I've also taught north of the border in Canada. So as you must be able to conjecture…

All three watercolor portraits were painted on 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper, 11 by 15 inches in size. The black gentleman was painted mostly wet-on-wet in about thirty minutes. The gentleman holding the camera was painted mostly wet-on-dry over the coarse of three days in one to two hour sessions. The female subject was watercolored equally wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry over two days in about one hour sessions. I teach three to five day portrait workshops both in California and…

I See You by David Lobenberg Watercolor ~ 15 inches x 11 inches

Color corresponds to value. Ever looked through red acetate or a sheet of red plastic? You see like a dog...woof, woof. You see a value range from light to dark but no chroma or color. You can paint with one color, be it in red, blue , yellow or really any damn color that floats your boat. If you can do that well enough, how about any damn COLORS that float your boat but with the same value range that you see while looking through that sheet of red plastic? That is what I did here ( I…

Want to paint beautiful portraits in color? DO NOT DO IT! Not until you have lots (and I mean LOTS) of experience painting port...

Here's kinda the progression of the previous Swisher portrait post. A LOT of in between playing/searching steps are missing. That's what I like about painting in acrylic, it allows changes within minutes. No scraping or long dry times like oils. Shorter blending time, but that doesn't bother me.

Yours Truly by David Lobenberg, Watercolor, 20inches x 20inches

The Bearded One by David Lobenberg Watercolor ~ 15 inches x 11 inches

Having completed a weekend workshop at the Donner Lake area in the northern California Sierra mountains (see previous post), my wife and I drove to the north shore of Lake Tahoe for some R and R. We stayed at a large, classic, all wood cabin built in the 1930"s. Our invitation to stay there came from a member of the Grebitus family, very well known in Sacramento for there many jewelry stores. The cabin sits right of the lake with its own private beach and boat pier. We were planning some…