I am an artist that paints in pastels, with some oils, and acrylics. I sketch in pen and ink. As an artist my original paintings are influenced from living in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, and travels throughout much of Canada and all our fifty States.
This is my spot for posting paintings and sketches, to muse mostly about art, life and a little about UT Baseball.
I played in the water for the Watercolor August Challenge on creativespark. I was working from a photo of Peonies courtesy of PaintBoss. I'm feeling a bit more comfortable with watercolor but need to do it more often as I tend to forget what worked last time and you do have to learn how the different colors react to each other and how much water to use for the different effects. It was almost fun today.
These are in the Strathmore Bristol vellum 100 lb paper sketchbook, 9 x 12 inches. I did not draw with a pencil first. I did direct watercolor with an angled brush. The shadows are more reddish in real life.
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Yay, another direct watercolor! This came out really nice. Why did you select an angled brush? I don't have one, but I have something similar...a dagger brush.
Joan, thank you. I was too lazy to draw the flowers. Ha. I think the angle brush is much the same as using a flat. I don't have a dagger brush but from the tutorials I've seen it is much looser in strokes and I need more control in my world. It was also the first brush I tried with watercolor, I probably saw it on a video.
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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Yay, another direct watercolor! This came out really nice. Why did you select an angled brush? I don't have one, but I have something similar...a dagger brush.
Joan, thank you. I was too lazy to draw the flowers. Ha. I think the angle brush is much the same as using a flat. I don't have a dagger brush but from the tutorials I've seen it is much looser in strokes and I need more control in my world. It was also the first brush I tried with watercolor, I probably saw it on a video.
Amazing.
Thanks, R's Rue. :-)
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