I painted the whole scene with my new favorite color, olive green. I was thinking of adding just a kiss of color, but added much more, but I think it looks pretty good. 9x12
Struggled with this in class, washed out a lot when I got home, and I think I have raised if from a meh to an 'interesting' 5x7
Just a fifteen minute sketch but I like its jaunty attitude 5x7
Redoing that leaf from a couple weeks ago. 9x12
I really like the first one but I don’t know if using Yupo made a difference. Except for the clouds it looks like a normal watercolor to me. Now that jaunty little flower has some true Yupo marks.
ReplyDeleteIt made it a lot more fun. Also it lets me show my brush strokes.
ReplyDeleteGood choices here. Adding other colors really enlivened and enriched the first painting. Same for lightening the background of the second one. That third painting is so cool. I like the color, the brushwork, the composition and the energy--pretty much everything. Waiting to see what happens to the leaf. I'm hoping you add more color and more movement (bigger brush, maybe?)
ReplyDeleteThe jaunty coneflower really shows off your brushwork and all the other paintings pale in comparison to its punchy colors.
ReplyDeleteI spent like five hours on that firs painting and three hours on the second, and fifteen minutes on that stoopid flower. Punchy colors? How would you like a nice Hawaiian punch?
DeleteYeah, the added color to your landscape made a difference to the otherwise boring brushwork. You had some real excitement going with the brushwork on the sky. The 3 flowers standing at attention do look better after being washed out. It got rid of some of the sameness in technique. The sketch is the best one standing, different strokes and colors do it. We'll see on leaf #2.
ReplyDeleteThese are happy go lucky garden scenes. The leaf is softly expressive…but I’m so late in commenting it has probably been covered up by now.
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