Today’s watercolor experiment: It started as a sunset. I took a photograph of one of those wonderful pink, orange and dark blue cloud sunsets the other day as part of my ‘cloud bank’ series of photos. I thought I would paint a beautiful sunset today. Somehow the essence of cloudiness did not make its way […]
Today’s warmup exercise: Clouds. At last! Something I have always wanted to master. I’m counting on the book from which I am learning, the Tate Watercolor Manual,* to show me how. Since the full title of my go-to book of today invokes the great masters, for this lesson they chose one whose sky-work is unsurpassed: […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Over the past couple of days I have been trying to introduce some drama to my watercolors, (Sketching Problems, When You Fall Off a Horse, Values) inasmuch as one can dramatize the vista of a parking lot. Dramatic elements were present in the photographs, as clouds. How? The ever-so-gradual shift in tone from dark […]
It took me a little while to get back to doing my watercolor studies, after visiting the kids last week. I just got the studio back in order, unpacked, put everything away and… no ideas. Today’s watercolor experiment: I was flipping through a watercolor magazine and saw a poor reproduction of a painting by J.M.W. […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I’m still interested in the amorphous formations of clouds in the sky. However, instead of drawing or painting specifically shaped cloud objects, I am allowing the watercolors to be watercolors and let them flow, mix, bloom with the addition of diluted color or clear water, and blot with the touch of a […]
I put a few finishing touches on yesterday’s practice study. The color balance is different since I photographed it outdoors.
