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Thursday, July 11, 2024

Allergy in Direct Watercolor

Ai and Joan paint direct watercolor often in our Scavenger Hunt sketches.  They are so good at it.  It means to paint in watercolor without drawing first in pencil or ink.  I chose an easy subject.  They do fences, windows, dishes, etc.  In a landscape the shapes aren't quite as important.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 121  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-121-jul-06-jul-14.7034/


Number 4, allergy causing - cedar trees out my studio window.  Done in the Canson Mixed Media large sketchbook, half page under the coffee painting.  Painted with an angled brush and watercolor.

Some wrinkled paper shadows on the left.  

I didn't spend to long on this.  I see after the fact that I should have put in more limbs to start with as the cedar branches are pretty light colored.  A gel pen might have worked but I wanted just watercolor.

More practice required.

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4 comments:

Joan Tavolott said...

Bravo on doing a direct watercolor of the scene. It came out really nice!!

Jo Castillo said...

Thanks, Joan. Coming from you compliments mean a lot. I need to try a more difficult subject. Evil grin.

R's Rue said...

So pretty.

Jo Castillo said...

R's Rue, thanks so much. Have a good weekend.


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I Grew up in a small town , Magdalena, New Mexico. I enjoy art and the pleasure other people get from my work. I always donate some of my sales and art to charities, especially for children. That started in Bolivia with Para los Niños. "I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." -- Winston Churchill

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