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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 1d

Gas Station Traffic Cones, Winooski. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a gas station and convenience store in Winooski, Vermont. The pump station overhangs stands on the right covering poles, pumps and traffic cones below in blue-purple shadow cast from a bright sun overhead and out of view. In the background is a brick facade of the convenience store with fliers, buckets and propane bins on the left. Behind the pump in shadow is a well lit interior of the store. The foreground is littered with orange and reflective white traffic cones, in shadow.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 7d

thank you! 😊

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 8d

Civil Dusk on Calle Huerto, Granada. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of Calle Huerto alley in Granada, Spain. A light blue civil dusk sky hangs above two intersecting, blocky apartment buildings; the automatic street light attached midway up the right-side apartment building's oblique wall floods the apartment facades with warm yellow-orange light and falling against a wooden entry, window panes and a garage door on the left behind a car in shadows. The light in the scene reveals that this street may soon be covered in darkness soon - except for the sole street lamp - once the sun is completely behind the horizon.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 12d

Montpelier Skyline. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of buildings in downtown Montpelier, Vermont. An angular, imposing building on the right has a pastel purple painted brick facade with white sashed windows. In the background are red-brick buildings and a tall chimney. In the foreground, standing in the center is a telephone pole with a white,. cylindrical transformer and electrical lines emanating.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 18d

Piazza Guglielmo II, Monreale, Sicily. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

Sicily.

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Watercolor painting of a building along Via Dante Alighieri in the main piazza of Monreale, Sicily. A large blue-purple shadow runs diagonally from the upper left along a tall orange-ochre building and falls upon the sidewalk and street in the foreground. White canopies cover tables and a ground storefront in shadow with a large sandwich board set out announcing the menu of a cafe. The stepped stories of the building have various tall rectangular windows in varying colors reflecting back the sky, which hangs in bright blue above.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 22d

thank you! 😊

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 22d

thank you 😊

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 22d

Blake Roy Barn. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a large barn in rural, central Vermont. A large multistory barn with vertical wood slats occupies the right-side of the scene. Large equipment fans nestle above its ground floor windows and white door entry. To the left is a single floor enclosure with a rusted steel roof catching an angled blue shadow from the larger structure. Behind, a big blue sky hangs above a silo in the background.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Sep 12

Eiger, from Grindelwald. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9",

Hesitant to paint scenes a trip to Switzerland. I stick to urban landscapes in some stage of decay, but - hopefully - with some grace. Something majestic in a much slower decline is tough.

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Watercolor painting of Eiger Mountain in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland. A gray sky hangs behind the mountain, dipping to the right to reveal slight ochres of clouds capturing the sun from the left. The mountain is mostly covered in pure white snow with craggy rocks poking out within the purple shade cast to the right-side of the face. Reddish-brown forest creep up from the bottom of the frame.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Sep 9

Vis & Snacks, Wharf. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press

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Watercolor painting of a fish monger business along the wharf in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. A large, blank white billboard hangs above a one story warehouse. The warehouse is a faded cream white building with a long, rectangular blue canopy extending from the right and casting a sun-filled purple shadow on various signs and a single door entry.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Sep 5

Het Straatje Thoughts. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press

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Watercolor painting of a reconstructed building in homage to Vermeer's Het Straatje painting. The recreated building resides in Madurodam, The Hague, Netherlands. A three story, stepped dwelling occupies the scene, rising to the right with slender chimneys extending upward, out of the frame. The red brick facade has windows on each floor, upper panes reflecting back a blue sky. The ground floor brick is partially covered in white paint, with a tall, slender door in the center and a.recessed entry to a walled garden on the left. A single red shutter hangs off a window on the right.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Sep 1

thank you 😊

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 31

Canopies on Kranenburgweg. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of an apartment building along Kranenburgweg in the Statenkwartier of The Hague, Netherlands. An ochre brick row apartment has large, orange striped canopies overarching first and second story windows. The windows reflect back a bright blue sky in their lower panes while casting back the striping of the canopies above. The facade protrudes in the center, creating a half-hexagon which positions the flanking canopies at an angle.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fishmonger Dumpster. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a fishmonger business in Scheveningen in The Hague, Netherlands. An afternoon sun sets upon a crowd of buildings, casting a large purple shadow on a closed, metal garage door entry of a fishmonger. Before the garage door is a dumpster, angled toward the sun and casting a small shadow against the street and sidewalk. The garage is surrounded by apartment buildings below a bright blue sky.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 24

Camino del Sacromonte, Granada. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a home along Camino del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. A post and lentil, red brick entry is on the center left of the scene with darkened stairs and windows covered in cook blue-purple shadow. The exterior of the apartment buildings is a stucco white with stains of yellow and ochre and an outcropping of nature to the left of the entry. The red brick runs along the building to the right under a plaque and darkened window.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 22

Shop on Largo do Limoeiro, Lisbon. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of two three story buildings sandwiching a one and a half story structure recessing in the middle of the scene. The flanking apartment buildings have a white stucco facades with tall windows encased in fading yellow trim. Their red shingles roofs rise and dip sharply in the center, revealing a blue keyhole sky. The store is under the shade of a long, horizontal ochre canopy with a white lapel facing the viewer, its name in aqua green lettering. Cool blue and purple shadows run along the facades in angles from left to right, revealing a sun drenched sidewalk and cobble road in the foreground.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just Down the Street, Jacob Gillesstraat. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of apartment buildings on the corner of Jacob Gillesstraat and Frederik Hendriklaan in The Hague, Netherlands. Large canopies in cream and orange stripes overhang windows of a bright, red brick building in angled shadows from a high afternoon sun from the left. A street leads to the distance on the right with protruding facades in painted white and red brick, protruding and catching some sunlight.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 16

thank you 😊

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 15

Voorburg Clothing Store. Direct Watercolor. 12"9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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A watercolor painting of a clothing store in Voorburg, The Netherlands. A large, dark shadow is cast against a brick building with a ground floor clothing store. Afternoon sunlight warms the upper left of the scene and drapes itself on a few of the items in the storefront to reveal bright whites, yellows and reds before the darkened interior. An ochre canopy separates the store level from upper story apartments windows while a darked sidewalk with a few window reflections lays in the foreground.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 13

Zaandam Houses. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

A little too loose for my detail-oriented head, but stepping back because I like the blocks of colors.

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Watercolor painting of a pair of houses on Zaandam, The Netherlands. Strong red-orange dominates the painting with roofs, trees and houses occupying the lower 3/4 of the scene with a light blue sky above. Abstract blocks and dark strokes fill in the shadows of the houses on a foreground of ochre and green. Slight strokes of a windmill are in the upper left background.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 10

Lisbon Apartment Laundry. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16".

Been a tough go at painting larger format after basically a whole year focused on a travel easel. This one didn't get crumpled up like the last handful.

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Watercolor painting of laundry hanging out to dry along multiple floors of an apartment building in Lisbon, Portugal. A mutiple-story, pastel yellow apartment building has a stark blue-purple shadow cast upon the right side from another apartment building behind the viewer. On the first floor is a wide, multi-paned screened in window, with various articles of clothing strung to dry in front. The level above has sheets and towels hung on wire and metal structures, with a single window. On the roof is a small entry with more clothes hung to dry, covered in shadow.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thank you 😊 There was a group that started on Facebook but has since switched to another platform that ran a "direct" watercolor challenge one month out of the year. There are different interpretations of it but mine is: no preliminary sketches, no underdrawing. Just start painting and hold on

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 8

thank you 😊

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 8

Back Home. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · Aug 7

Loempia Cart, Scheveningen. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a small Loempia Cart in Scheveningen, The Hague. A one-person food card resides on the corner of the marina in Scheveningen. The cart sets, slightly teetered on a cement community square with long poke structures resembling ship masts. In the background are some red roofed, and brown brick facade apartments. A noon-day, blue sky hangs above the scene.

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