White Lily II, watercolour, 5 x 7", April 2010
White Tiger, 5 x 7", watercolour, April 2010Now on ebay.ca, click here to view and bid
Showing posts with label small works. Show all posts
Showing posts with label small works. Show all posts
May 4, 2010
February 17, 2010
Iris sketch
Dual Iris, 7 x 5", watercolour, Feb 2010
This is a quick sketch done in preparation for a larger work. I hope to do either a full sheet or a half sheet of this same pair of blossoms. I am not looking forward to drawing all the convoluted wrinkles and folds of the petals so that is the main reason why I have not started yet. Tomorrow promises to be a day mostly for painting (I hope!!) so perhaps I will get a good start on it then.
What I was focusing on in this sketch was loosing some of the edges of the petals. Using the lost and found edges to give a feeling of 3D space, where the lost edges that fade away disappear into the background and the sharp edges push forward towards the viewer. I try to establish this right at the outset. I tint the petals only lightly and when dry I paint in the deep background tones, trying to get them dark enough in one go. While this is still wet, I touch the edges I want to soften with a wet clean brush. I make a stroke with clean water into the petal, which gives the pigment of the background a chance to move into the petal, giving a nice soft edge. It is easy on something small like this. Much harder to keep everything at the right stage of dampness when the area I am working on is so much larger. This is why my flower pictures often have the edges of the flowers often running off the edge of the page. Plus I would just as soon use as much picture "real estate" on the actual flower itself.
February 16, 2010
Thoughts of spring...
Bright Star II, watercolour, February 2010, 5 x 7"Time for a break from boats and winter paintings... thought looking closely I realize that the colour scheme is not much changed from the subjects that I have been working on lately. You may recognise that this is a reprise of the lily painting done in December. I wanted to take another try at it as I found it took me too many tries to get the values right in that one. This one came together more quickly.
January 28, 2010
rowboats, sailboats and more
Here are some more in my series of small paintings. I am trying to work quickly in an effort to keep my paintings from looking overworked. I have learned that the paintings by master watercolour painters that I love have at least this one thing in common. They are all fresh and allow the spontinaity of the watercolour paint itself to show through. By working on small and quick paintings I hope to get better at doing that myself.
Scattered Sweet Cherries, 5 x 7", watercolour, January 2010
January 15, 2010
More ebay paintings
Abstract Landscape I, 7 x 10", watercolour, SOLD on ebay.ca
Sailboat Racing II, 5 x 7", SOLD on ebay.ca
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Sailboats III, 5 x 7", watercolor, soon to be listedJanuary 10, 2010
January 6, 2010
Small works (one now on ebay)
Sailboat Racing, 5 x 7", watercolour, 2009
I am trying something new by launching an ebay auction for this painting (pictured above) The auction is open until Sunday evening, Jan 9th. If you are interested, I suggest you go and check it out here. This is the only one of my little paintings on ebay right now. I hope to add to it as I go along. I encourage you to keep watching.
Here is another one of several little paintings I have been making as part of my internet selling experiment:
Blueberry Picking, 5 x 7", watercolour
The ground here looks very pink. If you are not familiar with the habits of the low growing wild blueberry you might not know that the foliage of the bushes really does turn this incredible crimson colour in the fall. Now, I have taken a bit of artistic license in this picture. The foliage usually turns after the berries are picked, but that is one of the joys of being an artist; I get to change things!
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