I just got these finished for Day 9 and 10 of the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge and stepped quickly inside as it started to rain. I should have waited, because a beautiful sun break happened after the rain. On the other hand, you just have to know how to paint in diffused light if you're going to make watercolors in the PNW.
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| Working on Timing and expressive Brushstrokes |
I feel fortunate that I have so many choices from my garden right now. I love Delphiniums for their unusual blue colors and interesting shapes all along the stem. You get to see every stage of the flower as it blooms from bottom to top.
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| Definitely wet on wet. Still wet while snapping a photo. |
I tend to take a photo almost the instant I finish signing the painting. I sign the painting while the last brushstrokes are still wet. There's a reflection from the sky in a bubble of wet paint, which you can probably see if you look closely at the center of the right hand stem.
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| Some watercolor effects after completely dry |
Some watercolor effects take place while the painting is drying and aren't recorded in the snapshots that I take for social media. The Kilimanjaro paper takes much longer to dry than some other papers I use and causes a variety of surprise effects in the process. You can see this above, where I took another photo before posting this article.
Gorgeous simplicity to these direct watercolors!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Joan. It's a balancing act, trying to include just enough but not too much! If I have to choose, I would rather have 5 strokes too few than 5 too many!
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