Artist Marialena Sarris
Still Life Paintings
Paintings by Subject Recent Works
For Sale
You can read more information about the size and the pricing by clicking on the images. You can also check the availability of a painting on the paintings descriptions of the individual painting galleries. All paintings and commissions are sold unframed except those that are sold from exhibition halls or art galleries. Please contact me […]
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Bio/Contact information
Marialena Sarris is a Greek watercolour artist. Her work is represented in private collections around the globe. Many of her commissions are for portraits of all kind. People (adults, children),pets and even flower portraits. In her spare time, she sketches the fascinating world she sees around her, gathering material for her future paintings. Marialena is […]
Pet Portraits
Floral/Botanical Sketches
Portraits
Floral Paintings
Review: Viviva Colour Sheets
There are plenty of tiny and portable watercolour kits to use for your urban sketching setup, but some are more portable that others! On this post I’m going to review the most portable of all. The Viviva Colour Sheets.
Links
I recommend to visit the following websites too: Lizzie Harper ( Botanical and Natural History Illustrator) Pat Harrison ( Great Paintings in Oil and Acrylics) Andre Jute ( Best Seller Author and Painter) Russ Stutler ( the semi god of urban sketching) Matthew Mattingly ( great art by an all weather artist) Brian van der […]
Portrait/ Figure Sketches
Wild Life Sketches
Still Life Sketches
Seascapes Landscapes and Urban Sketches
Antiquities Sketches
Wild Life Paintings
Night Starry Skies Series
Ornithology- A Sketchbook Full of Bird Sketches.
Seascapes
Pet Sketches
Migrating my website to Classic Press CMS
Hi everyone! I’m back to my blog with a bit more technical post about my website’s setup, that will probably interest those of you who have designed and run your personal portfolio websites on Wordpress and you are already fed up with the dysfunctional new default editor. If you belong to this category of people […]
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Etchrlab and Stephanie’s Law Mini Porcelain Palette Review
As I wrote in my previous blog post I modified my tiny and trusted watercolour box in order to hold 30 colours. The idea of holding 30 colours in tiny wells came to me when I realized that large watercolour palette boxes were neither convenient nor useful for my painting style, that is to paint […]
Tiny 30 Watercolour Palette Box Modification- DIY Watercolor Box
I have talked elsewhere about my tiny watercolour box that it is actually a modified old cigarette case. This box turned out to be the most convenient box for outdoor sketching as it is small, compact and super lightweight.
New and Improved Van Gogh Watercolours Review
Royal Talens the company that produces Van Gogh watercolours, updated recently this line of watercolours by adding some new colours and improving the consistency of the already existed ones. Van Goghs are the watercolours that I favour, partly because I use them for countless years due to their high quality and affordable price but mostly […]
How to Mix Skin Tones in Watercolour
Hi! I’m back on my blog with some new tutorials and reviews. Here I share with you a rather straight forward tutorial on how to mix skin tones in watercolours. The concept is quite simple. I’ve swatched light medium and dark skin colour mixes, that are useful when you are painting realistic portraits.
How to scan large watercolour paintings and edit them on GIMP – A step by step tutorial
Large watercolour paintings can be quite tricky to photograph sometimes. The camera has to be of a very good quality, with very good lens that doesn’t distort the edges of the image, and good sensors that can catch accurately the colours of the painting, mounted on a tripod with a good light installation in order […]
A modified Prang vintage metal box and my new colours
Let me present you here how I modified my vintage metal Prang watercolour box. This was a box that was gifted to me among other Prang boxes. The metal box was the most promising one and so I took the decision to change it a bit. This box’s dimensions are 21,5 x 5x 1 cm […]