Recently I studied the paintings from several masters. When I saw this painting in the book "Edgar Payne - The Scenic Journey", I had to practice it. Most of paintings in this book are landscape. This still life caught my eyes - I love the warm colors with the blue vase. Here is my study of it. I changed out a few flowers and also the little green vase. It was fun to do this study.
Ronin is my son's family dog. He is very hyper and likes to jump on me whenever I visit them. I tried to paint a several different backgrounds. Here is the latest version I settled.
I did this painting a while back. Now I rebrushed it to make the water color with gradation and also add a few flying seagulls to make the picture more interesting. 
I rebrushed this painting to change the size of figures a little bit larger. I like this version better.
