Watercolors from Whidbey Island
Randy Emmons
So here I am retired from the Navy, and like so many late life painters, have taken time to reconnect with my passion...watercolor. I stand at my easel and draw, contemplate, make faces, stare and put paint to paper - trying to balance design, color, and style into an appealing representation of a local scene.
And on rare occasions I dance!
Yup, I dance when I am lucky enough to watch an amazing event. While I hold my brushes in my hand, sometimes I see them paint the image I am thinking. And things happen on paper I am surprised to see. For when everything is just right, I am a bystander to the whole event that unfolds on the paper before me. And I look at the painting and wonder how the heck I did that!
I paint local scenes with attitude! Some people say they are “WONKY.” I’m told my paintings make the viewer happy. All I know is I paint watercolor and I try to lay it down clean, crisp, with the whites intact so the painting will sparkle. I have won some awards and have had the honor of doing several local festival posters. All I ask is that when you view my work it makes you feel good. Oh ya, and it would be good if it makes you want to take it home too!
"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens." Grandma Moses
Photo by Rishard Gorczewski
Original watercolor paintings of Northwestern Washington by Whidbey Island painter Randy Emmons.
