I have drawn people and done some half-witted attempts in paint, but this painting, for me, is my first more than half-witted portrait in paint. Source photo is from Pixabay.
9×12 canvas paper, Golden Fluid Acrylics. Limited palette of violet oxide, cobalt blue, yellow ochre, cad yellow, zinc and titanium white.
Family in from out of state means a lot of fun, but no time to paint….and so the craving for brush and paint and playing with color has been strong.
Succumb to the siren call….
Golden fluid acrylic, 12×12 inch Strathmore 400 paper.
Most of my watercolors tend to have intense colors that are rather bright. With the underwater rocks and floating leaves of the other day, to get the effects I did, I used a lot of thin layers of colors – glazes – to create the desired effects. I was pretty happy with the results, so today I decided to work at creating a painting with good contrast but with many delicate ares of color.
My intention here is to create the effects of early morning with sun just beginning to brighten the landscape. This needs a delicate sky. I had drawn in my sketch first and from there began with thin washes of cobalt, quin rose, and Naples yellow. The wispy clouds were painted wet-in-wet using cobalt and umber. Pleased, I again used pale washes to create the fields in mid and foreground.
Looking at the picture, I realized that the lower 2/3 of the painting were essentially all the same value even though different in color. A scan of the painting and a desaturation of color showed my assumptions were correct.
Sooooo??
A bit of thought. In the end I applied thin glazes of quin gold along the hilltop horizon and a number of layered glazes on thew lower hills in cobalt and umber. This gave depth and distance.
Another painting done slowly and with more deliberation. And I am pleased with the results as well as even learned a few things!
Watercolor, 9×12, Fluid 100% cotton CP paper.
Calm water, smooth stones, fallen leaves, a sunny day. A lake, a pond, along the shore of a creek or river.
Rosa Botanical pan paints, Fluid 9 x 12 cotton CP paper.
i was so looking forward to visiting Port Sunlight during our brief stay in Liverpool. While I have enjoyed the Beatles since the 60s, I will say I opted for gardens and museums as I prefer the countryside! However, I expect the foul weather which forced the trip we were on to bypass Dublin carried into Liverpool and rather than a bright spring day, we would have needed galoshes and slickers! So, a rough sketch of a rather lovely bridge and buildings, playing a bit with some things gleaned from my building drawing class.
When I do these not-taken-vacation sketches, I confine myself to my limited supplies I would have been using onboard. And limited room. Elements of the colors I brought with me annoy me no end, meaning no good violet at all. The same with pinks or alizarin. I may visit in my imagination to buy some extra colors….or not. Let’s see where all this takes me!
Ink, Yarn & Beer 