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years working with watercolors.
“Watercolors are so instant You can change them a little but not much. They’re very limited as to what you can do after the color is down — it goes quickly. It’s both a blessing and a curse,” she said. “I spend an hour thinking for every 10 minutes of working.”
Lois does sketches of scenes she wants to paint and also takes photographs of the scenes. “I only paint what I’m very familiar with, something I look at every day,” she said.
“I have a western view from my studio so I see a lot of sunsets and winter here is the best time for them.”
“I use relatively few tricks. I’ve heard of a few but I haven’t tried them. I do skies with the paper wet but you have to get just the right amount of water. Each painting is a kind of experiment,” she said, “the right combination of water and pigment.”
Lois said she doesn’t show about half of what she paints, keeps about two-thirds and probably throws away at least a third of the work she does.
“But, I always say ‘don’t throw away anything immediately’ and sometimes I put them away. Something I thought was awful when I first did it may be fine on second look. I’ll work on it a little more and do a little fixing
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