Tessa! As I do more water colour, I'm picking up up more on the wet on wet technique and layering of tones I love. For this image I drew in some of the line work in a way that would compliment the washes and give the image an underlying structure. I left spaces of white and lighter tones, thinking ahead a step or two to what I wanted it to look like. At the same time, the WC has a mind of it's own so I'm trying to preserve that looseness and airiness which is characteristic of this medium. I've omitted red and added instead, green and blue washes to the background. Tessa's gone now, but her memory lives on and I was pretty happy with how this turned out.
Tessa!
(below) Another Water Colour study. I had too much going on here, too much paint and too heavy handed.
So I decided if that's how it's going to be I might as well put more on, do more and try to give it life in that direction.
In the end I was happy enough with it.
I had to come back over with white WC paint which I hate doing, but I'd already blotted out most of any of the white paper I'd been trying to leave with the blue.
I stayed with the theme of red. It's not easily seen in this reproduction, but the girl's lips are red. A small point of interest as well as part of the era (watercolour on WC paper - 130gsm).
'early one morning when the sun was shining'
(below) This series of water colour studies was done with red as my starting point. My imagination took over from there! I was also inspired by my daughters 'four girls' drawings. (Water Colour on WC paper 175 gsm)
These are great. Particularly love the second one down.
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Hope the exhibition launch went swimmingly well. Great photo in the paper :)
Have a great night.
Cheers
harry
I hope all went/ is going well with Stella's play too if I haven't already said so somewhere! The exhibition did go swimmingly well; I didn't drown in all the commotion. My husband and 2 of my boys manned the bar and food area and Penny opened it and did a wonderful talk - knowing exactly what I was on about. David was there too and lots of people from round the area and Launceston too. So all in all a big success by country standards! The pub accross the road got business from it and everyone was happy. I'll put some pickies up soon!
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skizo
well it's so long since I've been on here or lookked at any one elses art work but thanks for the comments from BrandNewStudio and Harry from all that time ago and I will take another look at your blogs again soo, I am currently doing more uni work online and it takes up so much time, but maybe at the end of it all I'll be teaching what I love most (besides my garden!)
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