Pat and I agreed that my Starbucks photo of the Friday patrons that I took would make an interesting composition for my July 12 watercolor! However, as soon as she left me, I reviewed my recent memories of Philippine Independence celebration in downtown Daley Center on June 12. Two performers, wearing colorful highland natives costumes and who danced spiritedly with the sound of a gong only seemed more interesting than a group of coffee drinkers. I painted the 2 dancers who wore flesh colored underwear beneath the layers of tribal clothing. After I sketched and colored the 2 dancers, I felt that they deserved a rainbow of background colors rather than the bare stage of the Daley Center outdoor stage. I used watercolor paints from my pans of new watercolor. The addition of colors directly from 2 or 3 tubes of watercolors
added vitality to the imagined scenario of a couple in the middle of a domestic dispute. Happy Painting to All!
This is interesting, Susan. The figures and background are relatively close in color and value and make this feel soft and dreamlike; meanwhile the posture of the figures and the column of fire behind them give vitality. That contrast keeps me looking to try to nail down the story.
ReplyDeleteI get the impression that a virgin is about to be tossed into the volcano.
ReplyDeleteYes! That's it! I saw fire or volcano in the back, but the low contrast background is more smoky and hazy than dreamlike.
DeleteLove these colors.
ReplyDeleteStarbucks has nothing on this, Susan. Way to go, you can hear the drum beat, feel the pulse. All that energetic color!
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