Today’s watercolor experiment:
I am working with the Tate Watercolour Manual today, as I have been for the past several weeks. I expanded my work from the smaller panels in my warmup exercise (see Lesson 12) to reproduce one of the exercises in the book onto larger paper (9″x12″).
The composition today was inspired by an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Bent Tree.
Composition After Jean-Baptiste Corot, The Bent Tree
9″x12″ 140# Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper
This composition has the same spatial arrangement as the Yin-Yang symbol from Taoism, as I mentioned in my other post today (Lesson 12). One can superimpose an ‘S’ shape to encompass the darker masses, leaving the intervening white space for balance. I let space show through the trees on the right side in order to balance the thinner, denser trees on the left side. The ‘bent tree’ in this composition is a bridge between the two dark masses.
Beautiful! This is very interesting, i love to know more about it.
Thank you Magny. Did you take a look at The Bent Tree oil painting? One can superimpose a yin yang symbol on top of it. That is the balance they talk about in the book. I’d also like to know more. Surely there is a book that explains more. Thank you for reading my posts.
J
Aaaa I will look into this!
Love this – it has made me want to look up the original 🙂 I like the S reference. Thank you.
I hyperlinked to a pic of the original. It is a bit different in design, with light on one side and dark on the other, just like yin and yang.
;>)