Johanna Pack

@johannapack

Artist, mostly watercolor, but I'll try anything. Based in Sacramento, CA, US. Website www.johannapack.com

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Johanna Pack@johannapack· 12d

Here's a painting I did of California wetlands in March. There was so much going on, it was hard to capture.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· 12d

This is a portion of a mural I designed for the local elementary school. Some silhouettes are of children I know. #BlueSkyArtShow #Water Each year, the students paint more stones to add to the river of rocks in the garden.

Part of a mural featuring dark blue silhouettes of children playing, yellow 5-point stars in varying sizes, and bright green hills against a bright blue sky. From a window in the wall, a painted river flows down to the ground, leading to a river of rounded rocks, many of them painted.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· 18d

This is an artichoke bloom I did for the annual Chalk It Up festival in Sacramento a few years ago. It was an extremely hot weekend, and I worked mainly at night. Here you can see the feet of one of the attendees for scale. #BlueSkyArtShow #Big

A chalk drawing of an artichoke in bloom on a sidewalk divided into 3 sections by 3 sections. The upper right corner is slanted, a a pair of sandaled feet is visible, with each sidewalk segment being approximately 3 human feet to a side. The petals are green and red, with blue center stamens. The background is colored yellow-orange.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· 25d

Carbon dust is a fantastic technique and finding someone who knows how to do it is not common anymore. It's the technique I used to draw this feline skull. To be fair, I had access to harder pencils than are made today, since the teacher allowed us to use his supplies.

Monochrome image if a skull from a small wild North American feline facing left.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· 26d

This experiment with metallic watercolor that I made when I first bought them is a good fit for the theme #Glass for #BlueSkyArtShow

Painted on black paper, 2 silver pillars flank a wide stained glass double door. The doors have an intersecting geometric design. On each side are 3 narrow columns of long glass rectangles arranged like vertical bricks. On top is a half circle of glass shaped like 3 sets of stone blocks. The light from the doorway extends towards the foreground. The floor, walls, and ceiling have a light wash of silver to enhance the darkness of the far wall and the shadow of the two pillars.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jul 18

I forgot that I had followed this topic, but I do love #SciArt Here are some flowers painted on black watercolor paper, Wild Radish (Raphanus Sativus), Hartweg's Iris (Iris Hartwegii), and Ithuriel's Spear (Triteleia Laxa). Ithuriel's Spear is also called Grassnut due to the edible tuber.

Wild radish stem with some purple and white 4-petal flowers blooming, some buds. Each flower has a cluster of deep yellow center bits.

Hartweg's Iris shown from the top, with wavy green non-scientific lines around the edge. White flower with three major petals and three minor petals, all long with fluttering edges towards the ends. The major petals have red veins on the petals and yellow stamens lifting up from the center.

Ithuriel's Spear, each pale violet flower has a separate stem radiating out from the center stalk. Each flower has six petals that end in a point and have a darker stripe down the center. 15 flowers ranging from fully closed to fully open.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jul 18

#BlueSkyArtShow A field of sunflowers, #Growing at M3 Ranches in Winters, California. This was my plein air painting from the June 2026 Art and Ag event. It's on display at Anchor and Tree Coffee in Sacramento, California for the next few weeks.

Watercolor painting of the edge of a field of sunflowers blooming under a cloudless sky. The flowers and foliage are slightly abstract and painted with intensified, layered colors. A row of smaller sunflowers sits at about 60 percent from the left side. In the distance are hills covered in dry grass and oak trees, plus a couple of telephone poles. The sky fills about half of the image.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jul 4

This #wide mural was designed by my friend My-Lien Olssen for the Tahoe Elementary Art Lab. It featured Wayne Thiebaud, the Great Wave Off Kanagawa, Max Sansing, Yayoi Kusama, Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Faith Ringold, and two others that I can't remember. I did three faces. #BlueSkyArtShow

Mural featuring "photos" of famous artists arranged along a wall with a deep blue background. Some famous artworks exist between the background and photos.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jun 27

This is a drawing of a Diptera Dolichopidae that I made in college years ago using a microscope. This was a long time ago, but i don't think it was more than 5mm long. #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro Apparently this family of flies has around 8000 species, and I have absolutely no idea which one it is.

A drawing in pen and colored pencil of a fly from the side. The fly has an iridescent blue-green carapace, red eyes, small black fuzzy antennae, and yellow legs.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jun 20

I missed a few weeks of #BlueSkyArtShow, but here's my just-finished and currently unnamed painting, which certainly fulfilled the #Curve category this week. I would love suggestions, since naming is my least favorite part.

Abstract watercolor painting with the primary motion from the bottom left, curving upwards and over to the upper right. At the lower left source, dark purple and pink curving lines dominate, gradually leading into orange and then yellow as the design fans out. There are several orange and yellow shapes that are wider, more like leaves, but shorter than the pink lines, which take up the center. At the source, the background is granulated with an orange, pink, and blue wash, which fades to white as the design progresses, except for a few splashes where the line colors have been allowed to bleed into the paper.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· May 16

This #morning my mother in law passed away. I hope she would have liked this painting of the Foresthill Bridge at sunrise. #BlueSkyArtShow

Shallow river between scrubland hills. In the distance is a bridge running across the scene higher than the surrounding landscape. The foreground is in shadow, while the morning sun hits the top of the distant hills, clouds, and bridge supports.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· May 9

This is my cat from a few years ago. I painted her for the annual Trekell pet portrait contest and was going for the double-exposure school portrait effect. I think the background really detracted from the image. Should have gone with the lasers. #BlueSkyArtShow #Soft

A pale tortiseshell cat seated facing left and looking back over her shoulder. On the upper right is a smaller image of her face from another angle. Around the cats, the background is mottled blue swirls, with a line of blurry colored lights towards the top.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Apr 19

This is the western #Edge of California #BlueSkyArtShow

Watercolor painting of a cloudy day at the beach. The waves are gentle. Trees in the distance are partly obscured by fog. A person is flying a yellow kite, and birds are flying along the shore.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Apr 4

#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings This is one of the archways leading to the McKinley Rose Garden in Sacramento, CA. Painted on a watercolor postcard.

On a bright, sunny day, the image centers on a black metal arch with 4 posts and decorative bars between two arched upper poles in the front and back. On the left, a rose bush is growing up the poles. Rose bushes are arranged in rows around a central palm tree, with yellow, white, pink, and red blooms. Trees surround the garden and cast shadows on the grass in the foreground. The walkways are grass and low hedges are planted around the edge.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Mar 29

#BlueSkyArtShow #Background In this painting, I was trying to shift which aspect was the background versus the foreground.

Watercolor and ink painting with swirling, wavy lines. More pastel watercolor is visible at the top, with narrow black lines. At the bottom, the ink is more filled in with gaps to show the watercolor. Accented with gold watercolor.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Mar 22

For today's #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone theme, I'm sharing this watercolor painting of the Folsom Rainbow Bridge from Black Miners Bar. I was conflicted about the flag, but I decided it should also apply to those of us who actually want liberty and justice for all.

A placid river with large rocks and a metal bridge across it. There are two people sitting on the rocks and a goose swimming near the shore. A large American flag hangs vertically from the upper supports of the bridge.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Mar 7

This painting is called Molten Wings. It's part of a series I called Flow, which seems right for this week's #BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing theme

Abstract watercolor painting with rounded red shapes which blend into yellow at the center intermingled with teal ribbons on a white background. In between are lines of tiny dots of the same colors

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Mar 1

What's weird is that I'm pretty sure that same floatie is in the painting I just finished.

Three young girls stand ankle deep in a calm river at dusk towards the right. Ripples fan out from them. The near shore is muddy, but the far side is covered in reeds. A yellow pool donut with blue and red accents rests at the edge with two boogie boards and a log. Next to the log is a pair of shoes. In the reeds across the river, a heron is watching.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Mar 1

#BlueSkyArtShow #Round I found this piece again recently when I was looking for something else and realized that I hadn't taken a photo of it. It was a stylized self portrait from 20+ years ago.

Woman sitting in a white bubble against the left side, surrounded by darkness. She's wearing a blue dress with a skirt that has far too much fabric to be real. It folds around, and where it's possible to see the inside at the hem, it's green. She has straight hair that fans out to the right. Her hair and dress mostly fill the bubble.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Feb 21

This is my Twin Dragons painting for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Two

Abstract watercolor painting of two red and orange dragons turning their heads to look at each other with outstretched wings. The lower part of their bodies merges into a single area of red shapes. Around the dragons are swirling blue shapes.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Feb 15

Here's another one for the #BlueSkyArtShow today, a graceful zelkova in the yard of the Park Winters Inn in Winters, CA Theme #wood

A tree gently twisting upwards from a manicured lawn, with all of the lower limbs trimmed, casting faint shadows on a white Victorian farmhouse.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Feb 14

#BlueSkyArtShow This week's theme is #Wood These are some branches I painted in 2017.

Watercolor painting of branches against a cloudy sky. Painted with a palette of yellow, purple, green, and red to show variation in the wood color more clearly.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Feb 13

Just finished this flower, first finished work of 2026.

Abstract watercolor flower with a splattered pastel background. The flower is painted with intense deep red and bright yellow. The leaves are dark teal. Over the colors, there are irregular patterns in black and white.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jan 31

This is a second #Cloud picture for #BlueSkyArtShow with the clouds coming over the coastal hills. This is what January looks like in Northern California.

Watercolor painting of hills covered in new grass. Clouds come from behind the hills on the right to hide the blue sky. The clouds reflect morning light with hints of yellow and purple.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jan 31

I love today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Clouds Here's one cloud-focused painting that I called Kim's Hand. You can't see the hand without clicking to expand the picture, since it's on the far left.

Watercolor painting of dramatic puffy clouds over a man-made lake. In the lower left, a silhouette of a hand points towards a circling hawk.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jan 25

I painted this based on a poem by my husband. I think the closeness of the figures is a counterpoint to the #Cold #BlueSkyArtShow

Watercolor painting of a snowy street at dusk. Two people are walking close together, with their shadows stretching in multiple directions from the yellow street lamps. The people appear as silhouettes against the snow.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jan 17

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #One Here is one mermaid turning over under the water. This one is from years ago.

Watercolor painting of a mermaid bending forward to dive further down. The water is darker at the bottom and lighter at the top. Her hair is streaky yellow-blue, and her tail is red-orange with dots indicating scales and sparkle. Her fingers are webbed, and her skin is very pale.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jan 10

#BlueSkyArtShow The theme today is #Vibrant I love intense color. Here's a mural I designed a few years ago.

Mural with green hills and a blue sky, featuring yellow stars and dark blue silhouettes of children. At the top, a banner says "We Shine!". A river leads to the ground.

A painted river leads into a "river" of painted stones.

The painted stones continue down another side of the area.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Jan 10

I'm definitely into the #BlueSkyArtShow theme today, which is #Vibrant

Abstracted watercolor painting of California golden poppies. The flowers and leaves are outlined in black ink.

Johanna Pack@johannapack· Dec 20

The #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #OpenHouse today... so hard to decide. Here are some things I enjoy. Quercus California (my combo of native California oak trees), Butterfly Escape, Purple Iris, and my unnamed paper cutout in progress when my daughter added a face for me when I wasn't looking.