something I have not been doing much of...started one from a visit this summer to the South Platte near the gold medal water...
Very nice skip, what kind of paint did you use?more progress. View attachment 240909 a commission...
You know what THE HARD PART ABOUT CREATING REPRESENTATIVE ART IS? Balance, touch. in this case with a brush, color, tone and edges or clarity/ control all for the sake of composition...that skill over time that in some way assumes how the viewers eye moves across a creation. Since this is not paint by number...the ilk of what I do is as much about feeling it as doing it...That , my friend rules the creative art I do.Thank you, the long grass in the foreground looks difficult to do in water color.
Thanks it's what I do...what I feel I have to do.finished this one...client intersted...hoping...took a long time...a photo was not copied
"Washougal River"
13.5" X 20.5"
watercolor View attachment 243357
NW_flyfisher. I use Windsor Newton and Danial Smith tube watercolors...I also use student grade Grumbacher tubes...fof their reticulation qualities as they are less refined and I like the effect when I want such a thing...I use Arches 300 lb cold and hot press...I usually split a full WN sheet to 15" X 22" so I can get 2 paintings from single sheet...There are many other fine quality papers...but I like the ArchesI am a watercolor arist...over 45 tears now...
I got room on my wall for a print of that one if you're gifting. Nice work.I got a scan back... I never like the images I shoot of my paintings...subtlety can't be seen unless I havre them scanned... View attachment 243974
Well I don't know if being trained at north seattle college is what I would call it. 8 years in the Army had some training. Almost got kicked out of nursing school before I figured out I needed that training. The only thing I have tried is thinning with water on canvas largely because all the brush strokes with a thick medium, do not exist in my head. In fact., I am working on arches 140. Just some harliquin ducks on the water. My goal is to use the acrylic like a permanent mask, laying watercolor next to it with less bleed and maybe clean up a tremor. I also am trying to practice blending watercolor and blending acrylic color to the same hue, on watercolor paper. Like the same hue of blue, one side watercolor and other is acrylic. Could I get it the same hue? You know self taught crap cuz I'll be 60 next month and not going back to school. If I fish the salt with my spey rod next week, I'll be happy with that.I will show yo an old one here...I played with watercolor effects in acrylic on primed masonite on this one and others I wanted in acrylics a lot...I added and experimented with watering it down...dish soap and a fan brush...sudsing up the primed board letting it dry...Interesting reticulation...since you are trained you will know what I mean...