Today’s watercolor experiment: Following my warmup exercise (Warmup and New Brushes), I painted a full size (9″x12″) painting in the style of Corot. One of the authors of the Tate Watercolor Manual*, Tony Smibert, inspired today’s experiment with his 2005 composition ‘After Corot’. I used the same color scheme as in my warmup exercise: burnt […]
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 […]
The next lesson in the Tate Watercolour Manual, Lessons from the Great Masters by Tony Smibert and Joyce Townsend, the book I am studying, addresses composition. The authors chose to feature the work of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot to demonstrate balance of design. The art historian Ernst Gombrich notes (The Story of Art) that Corot strived for ‘clarity and balance’ […]
Many months back, I wrote a short post about creativity (Two Takes). Below, I reprise that and apply it to my recent painting process. Scientist using painting metaphor: Enrico Coen, in a fascinating book called The Art of Genes, tackles the question: How do biological organisms make themselves? He considers and rejects the idea that […]
