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slope
This is my newest watercolor, created with a few layers of dioxazine purple. First I established the horizon line and dripped on some wet, wet purple that I let drip down however it decided to drip, holding the paper up … Continue reading
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water
As a result of some watercolor sessions with two friends, I am becoming interested in water and how to paint it with some degree of realism. After a couple of attempts with watercolor, I know I have a way to … Continue reading
Posted in color, drawing, landscape, painting, texture, watercolor
Tagged art, color, drawing, landscape, perspective, space, texture, watercolor
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pastorale
This landscape was done in watercolor class a few weeks ago. Our instructor had talked about how colors in the distance are softer, lighter, and more muted, then demonstrated doing a landscape with a series of washes: sky, distant mountains, … Continue reading
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cool reflections
I’m pretty sure this is my new favorite watercolor; I love the composition, love the colors, love the white space, and totally love the rocks and the gently fading purple and blue. I painted this one afternoon during workshop time … Continue reading
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negative painting
I usually have more than one painting in process at any one time; currently, I’m playing around with some combinations of techniques…. wet on wet, dry on dry, poured paint, blowing through a straw, and negative painting. I have to … Continue reading
Posted in color, drawing, negative space, shape, space, texture, Uncategorized, watercolor
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pouring a landscape
Sometimes I manage to create a piece of art work that I just love to look at, and this is one of them. I am very pleased with the texture in the trees, the the coolness of the blue bleeding … Continue reading
stripes and white space
One day I walked into my watercolor class and saw a vase of flowers and a long piece of bunched-up striped fabric arranged across the worktable. “Uh oh,” I thought. The very idea of dealing with all that fabric seemed … Continue reading
Posted in drawing, landscape, lines, negative space, painting, space, Uncategorized, watercolor
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playing around
Just for fun, last week I did four little watercolor “pours” with the idea that I would do some drawing on them. The purple and blue landscape is about 8×9 and the smallest, the green and yellow landscape, is about … Continue reading
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monochrome
Portraiture is not really my thing, most likely due largely to inexperience, non-practice, and undeveloped drawing skills, but recently we played around with faces in my watercolor class, working from photographs. This little blue watercolor is the result of a … Continue reading
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landscaping
One Sunday morning in December, while listening to a math educator’s closing speech at a math conference at Asilomar, I was observing patterns in the building’s architecture while drawing in my sketchbook. (I had recently discovered that I hear better … Continue reading
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Tagged color, drawing, hard-edge, landscape, pencil, shape, space, texture, watercolor
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