When we arrived back to home base, the house was decorated for Siddy’s birthday already. Sidra loves rainbows, so her aunt and family fried strung up multicolored streamers all over the ceiling. It looked like a stalactited cave. How does one depict the ceiling of a cave from the far end to overhead? The sketch […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday, I used orange and its compliment blue, to render a school of goldfish (if a threesome can be considered a school). Today, I thought I could use that scheme, color and its complement, with another pair of colors. I chose yellow and purple. I had to find another subject as amenable […]
I’ve been having the hardest time trying to understand Cézanne’s composition. I bought Cézanne’s Composition by Erle Loran, which seems to cover exactly what I want to know. There are a couple of problems right off the bat: the book itself is an odd shape – 12″x9″, which isn’t a bad format for a painting, by a bit […]
I have been entertaining myself with watercolor painting for a few years. Sometimes, it isn’t so entertaining, though. When I want to emulate a style that represents the ethereal sky at sunset, or something as simple as a dramatic cloud formation, I feel as clumsy as if I were trying to draw a detailed drawing […]
