Watercolor has been my medium of choice for about thirty-five years. As an art teacher I had to be familiar with and able to teach a wide variety of media, so for my own work I wanted to focus on one. Early works ranged from still lifes to figures to landscape, and for a time I found my niche in painting architecture, from beautiful older structures with relief sculpture, to the grittiest of dilapidated buildings with rusty fire escapes, broken windows, and electrical poles.

Eventually holding a brush in my right hand and a photograph in my left, trying to stay faithful to the appearance of the actual building, grew tiresome. I began to explore organic subjects, and now I am mostly inspired by nature, whether it’s fauna or flora

©Cynthia K. Reid, By The Pond, Watercolor, 15 x 11 inches