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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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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…
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Sunshine and Shadows floral painting
This sunshine filled floral painting makes me happy. It’s funny, whenever I think I am finished a painting I will often have self doubt. That was the case with this one. I decided to set it aside for awhile and went upstairs to start supper. When I went back into the studio it stopped me in my tracks. It was glowing as luminous as I had hoped it would be! The yellows so sunny and yummy. Poured or sprayed paintings I approached this painting slightly differently by spraying the paint onto the wet surface. I actually thought that it may be less messy. Boy, was I wrong. The coloured mist…
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Demo Poured Painting Colours of Autumn
Yesterday was such a nice day. I had the opportunity to paint at the Hooper’s Studio in Hampton with some really great folks. This is the kick off weekend for their Small Works Show and they invited a number of us to participate. I worked on a demo poured painting piece. As this was a demo, I had to take some “short cuts” to try to get it done in a day. Typically I prefer to pour one colour in a session. For this piece I had to pour two and sometimes three colours in one session. I liked the way the colours mingled on the wet paper but…
