One of my students brought me several persimmons that his family is growing on their fruit farm. Mercy, he knows how to butter up his advisor!! LOL
Anyway, when I got home last night, I tried to repeat my 'loosening up' paintings that Karlyn Holman demonstrated this weekend.
Here's my attempt on hotpress paper, 140#. I wet the paper (too much) -- sketched in the persimmons with watercolor pencils, then added watercolor. Let that dampen, then added more watercolor. Let it dry, then added details and more watercolor - wet on dry.
3 comments:
Very good try. I so admire that you are doing wet into wet in the watercolor journals -- good as the journals are -- I have to have 300 lb. to even dare try. The right amount of water still defeats me. And I hate to rework!!!
Kudos to you for practice and persistence.
I like the hot press one best. Wonderful colors, excellent highlights and shadows!! This is loose and yet has detail - very nice combination!!
Lin: Your watercolors are really taking off, wow! And happy birthday to you and your blog also. I really love the colors on all these latest watercolors, just beautiful. Both the persimmons are lovely. Loose fits you well, keep it up.
Post a Comment