Alan Fall 25-7

 It’s amazing what you can find in your yard. We have a little smoke bush that turns some glorious colors in the late fall. It’s our first or second year with this in our yard and I decided to paint it a few different ways. 

Here is what I originally saw.

So I zoomed in and got this image. 

And then I cropped it to get the image I wanted to paint. 

I painted this on the polypropylene uncoated medium. I drew it using watercolor brush pens. There are a ton of colors in this set and I used about half of them. I also used a big Tombow marker and filled in negative spaces with watercolors. I finished with my “sctatchin” stick and a wet Q tip. I did the wrought iron fence with the water soluble Tombow and went crazy painting the leaves with the brush pens. It’s very colorful and fun to do. 

I went back to regular  8 1/2  X 12 140 # coldpress to do the next one.  So…it’s pen and ink with watercolor paint.  Each leaf was coated with water and I just dropped color in like real painters do.  Got some interesting effects here  

The last one is on 5 X 12 Yupo; real Yupo. I cropped the original some more and just painted it freehand and wet. I never did get the darker colors that I saw on the actual plant but I did get the colors in the reference photo.  

More autumn coming.  Trying the next autumn painting with the India ink resist technique.