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Lessons Learned, My Painting Process, Poured Watercolour, Scapes - Coastal and Land, Still Life - Florals & Much More
Summertime Promises
Summertime Promises The May long weekend heralds in the promise of summer and is filled with so much hope. We are dreaming of lazy long weekends, adventurous tours, what to plant in the garden… you know the feeling. I don’t know about you, but my soul has been longing to be warm so we can just chill. Our season on the East Coast is so short. We long for its arrival through multiple cold and dreary months. We have so many happy plans and ideas all to make memories that will last season over season. Gardening is a big part of our summer. We typically garden on our upper decks…
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Special Supper
I choose to paint Special Supper because I felt I needed a challenge! Jeepers! Designing a poured watercolour around lobsters sitting on a lobster platter may not have been my smartest move. Wing and a prayer The thing is, I could see the finished painting in my mind. Which when you start a painting I think you you should be able to do. Breaking the colours out into layers in this case was very complex especially since the painting is basically monochromatic. And red. Once the values started to get deeper, I actually lost my roadmap. I was unable to distinguish between critter and platter. You see, both the real…
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Country Garden Favourite
Country Garden Favourite is a traditionally painted watercolour of hollyhocks. Hollyhocks and mallow were a couple of my mother’s favourite flowers. And I guess, seeing them through her eyes as a child helped me to gain an appreciation for them as well. I always associate them with an old fashioned country garden. I truly love these blooms for their beauty and the nostalgia. No wonder I love to paint them. They bring me back to Cape Breton Good memories. Salty air. Sunshine. Wonderful memories of a place that was truly wonderful to be a child in. The beauty of blue There is another flower that takes me back there as…
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Social Climber poured watercolour
Poured watercolour of a purple clematis I just had to call this painting Social Climber as there are so many blossoms growing over top of one another. So many rich shades of blues, pinks and purples. When to say when There are times when I am unsure to call a painting complete or not. I find this challenges me more with poured watercolours than traditional painting styles. The paint stains the paper quite heavily when you pour, often creating sharper edges than you intended during the masking process. Pouring makes it harder to edit the painting while balancing the tone and maintaining transparency of colour. When I removed the masking…
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Magenta Magic
Magenta Magic is a poured watercolour painting of colour rich hollyhocks. Every time I do a poured watercolour I learn something new. Or re-learn something over and over. When you remove the masking compound, it changes the colours beneath it. For some reason the colours dull down. So weird. I would have said it was would only happen to yellow. But no, it is that way with most colours. And I really do know this and yet keep getting surprised by it. And that is why I call pouring process underpainting. Although the finishing brushwork is minimal. Magenta or fuschia? That is the question of the day. These two…
