Visit my New Shop!!!!!

I've opened a new store at My New Store!, and I invite you to go there and look around!

Here's my most recent painting!

This painting was done to show the glowing colors in the shadows of these roses!  Here's a video showing how to do the background.

Two Items of News

Hello! Here's my latest effort! Already listed on ebay, at
my ebay site and the other thing I wanted to tell you is prepare to be amazed! Go here and look. And it's not even up-to-date! It should have 4 more marked SOLD!

Paintings Not Sold and Sold since May 1, 2008.

I'm so tickled!!!!!
Cia

What's happening!

Lots is going on in my life folks! I'm going to try to post a bunch of it in one post but don't know how much I can put in one post.

Ebay has been good to me. I've sold the following paintings in about one month. These do not include the little ACEOs or the books!
Or my new product, the DVDs!
I will put that in another post.

Cia

Interesting Developments!!!

Well, y'all, I finally decided to try the ebay thing! Wonderful surprises!
Lots of sales and lots of bids. I hope you will go there and poke around!
My ebay site!

My YouTube Site!

My Myspace Site!

Lots to see!

Cia

Lessons on "Dreamy"

Here are some lessons I've used on my group, WatercolorLessonsbyCia@yahoo.com.

Rose Garden Original Watercolor Painting

I'm posting some recent work now... This is Garden of Roses. This is the one I did right before I did the last one. This is a full sheet watercolor and what a challenge it was too!



This is the last one that I did, it's called Dreamy. It is also a full sheet.

Lots of new things going on!

Hello! I've started a watercolor class online! People are ordering my book, and I've started a yahoo group for this. It's called WatercolorLessonsbyCia and I'd love to get more folks involved.
It's free but I ask for a donation via Paypal, most folks are donating $30 and that's a good amount to use, and if you want to join us, my Paypal ID is watercolorist@artmaker.com. The book is shown on my site at artmaker.com. You can order it via Paypal or send an online bank draft from that site, or just mail in your payment. It's $15 + 4.60 postage in the U.S. I'd have to check on
it if outside the country.

Right now we are working on a rose. OH! Almost forgot! I have uploaded movie clips for the group to YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/ArtmakerMeToday if you want to see them.
Some I did are too big and I've uploaded them to my site at cecilia-antoinette-price.com but I have to send you those URLs at this point. They are not available from the front page yet.

Hope to see some more students there!

Cia

Back from a 3 month absence!

Hello! I took some time off. I cannot say why I did it, it seems that my muse was gone.
But I've done 3 paintings recently, and here they are. First this is a white rose, mostly. A friend of mine allowed me to use her photo reference, and this is how it came out. It's a half sheet.

Next, I did a painting of hollyhocks, by far, my favorite flower, since I have grown them for many years, not including the last 2 years when I've mostly been growing weeds, and helping with a great-grandson during the day.

I'm working on another hollyhocks one, it is proving to be very HARD.
I'll post it when it's done. Cia

"Wedding Gift"

This is what I did for a wedding gift for my granddaughter Ashley.
It's a half sheet of Fabriano Artistico 140 lb. cold press paper.

White Roses

Here's something I really like. I finished this last week.
"White Roses". This is a full sheet, Arches 140 lb. bright white cold press paper.

Cia

Softly

I finished this one yesterday. I thought that it was finished, way before I would have usually thought that. There is a great deal to be said about knowing when to quit.

This is a half sheet watercolor on Arches 140 lb. bright white cold press paper.

My Neighbor's Roses

I'm kind of pleased with this one. It was very hard to do. These roses were in my neighbor's garden, Mr. Prestridge, and he kindly allowed me to take lots of pictures of them.

In order to get these variegated roses, I blew up portions of the picture and printed them out on photo grade paper. The difference is amazing and everybody who paints from photos ought to try this.

Here it is, it's entitled, "My Neighbor's Roses".

Some more Roses

I was told by a student that this was another masterpiece, however, I am not totally pleased with it as of yet.

This one was a combo, by that I mean that I isolated 3 pictures of roses and combined them into a composition, and this is how it turned out as a painting.

Opinions please? Cia

Yellow Roses

My goodness, I got locked out of here for a little while. Geez.

Here's my latest painting, I finally decided to try some roses! I think I turned a huge corner with this one!

Here it is!

This is a full sheet on Arches 140 lb. cold press bright white paper. It was an absolute joy to paint too.

Cia

My book

A long time ago, I taught beginning watercolor through Auburn University's Outreach Program. In order to do it I had to take a portfolio to the Department Head of the Art Department, the regular curriculum one. I went the same day I found out I had to do that. I knew that if I didn't do it that day, I would talk myself out of it. I had barely gotten a few things out of the portfolio when he picked up the phone and called Continuing Education, (that's what they called it then)
and said "Let her teach! She can certainly do it!"

And so I did. The book started out just as handouts for each weekly lesson. The students were adults, coming from all walks of life, all the way from Deans to stay-at-home mommies. It was one of the most enriching experiences of my life. The students would stay with me all 8 weeks. Other classes did not have that kind of track record.

The first edition of the book was just typewritten pages, no pictures, no fancy anything.

But it was used by the students faithfully.

Then one day my son Kendall gave me Microsoft Publisher software as a gift. Suddenly the book took on more importance and had pictures in it. The first edition had some pictures of my students' work in it.

I bought a machine to punch holes and bind the book using the spiral or the comb method. And that's the way I publish it now.

At this time, it has grown to 43 pages. It is full of pictures and illustrations, and I have removed all the student pictures as I have lost track of those folks over time, and I wish to market it more, and I don't know how to get in touch with them to ask permission to use their work in a broader way.

The book is listed on my personal website at My Book.

More New Work

It's been awhile since I updated this site, I should be more vigilant! This one is called "Abstract Rhodies" and I really like it very much. I got to a certain point with this and thought, hey, this looks finished, I'm going to stop!

White Rhodies

Hello all, I'm so excited about this particular painting! I am making progress, after all! This is white rhododendrons, it's a half sheet, and I'm trying a new paper, Artistico Fabriano 140 lb. cold press.

I'm interested to know what you think about this one!
Cia

Pink Hyrangeas

I've tried to do some hydrangeas now. Wow, what a lot of work! Here they are though. Cia

Here's a slideshow of the lesson!

I've found a way to embed the slideshow of my online lesson in here. Let's try it!


Lesson1 Watercolor Cia Price

Cia

New! Free Online Lesson

Follow the link under the title of this post to see the online lesson.
If you decide to follow along, you should start here first, this gives
the reference picture and the drawing, etc.
http://www.artmaker.com/Lesson1

Let me know if you decide to do this, I'm going to post all the pictures that we do online.

Cia