Burwell-Morgan Mill I submitted 5 paintings for the juried process to get into this show! Crossing all appendages - it's such a perfect place for an artshow and really hoping to get in. (October 6-21st) I didn't submit this for the show, but if I get in, I will give this to them to use as they wish - if they want! More of Karlyn Holman's style and it's such fun to do!
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This begins with sketching and masking to save whites. Then on very wet paper, randomly paint red, blue and yellow. When that dries, paint everything green that isn't part of the flower. Begin drawing on layers of leaves and paint layers of green around them - severl times - each darker layer brings the next set of leaves back farther. When complete, make remaining background dark with Red, Green and Blue! Takes a long time, but I love the results!!! Thank you, Lynn!!!
This is such a fun style to paint. Begin with sketch and apply masking to save the whites. Then wet both sides of paper and work from middle out - with yellow, gold, coral, and blues. Dry thoroughly then apply shadows. Then the greens - then the details of the house. Remove masking and splash in flowers. Last step is to wet areas and shave watercolor pencils into them - voila! My husband does not like the pinks - says they don't belong there!!! I think they are fun!!!!
"Got A Light?" - original I like this painting because the ashtray was made for Jim's Dad by a steel company that was one of his customers - and I love the old torch. Always thought it was funny - "Got A Light" but there's just been something wrong with it compositionally.... "Got A Light?" - revised So, I took Anna's (Teacher and Dear Friend) suggestion and added a sign to balance it out a little - better???? Apparently you can make a full time job out of submitting artwork to various shows throughout the state (and others!) Beckley Art Group invited WVWS members to submit pieces for their upcoming juried show at the Cynthia Bickey Art Gallery. I'm sending CD with 3 images of my paintings today - crossing my fingers that I get in this show, too!
"Was that another chicken joke?" This was the first of many paintings from Lynn Ferris' class! So glad to have her back in our neck of the woods and to continue to learn from this amazing Artist and Teacher!!! "Art at the Mill" by Andrea Burke This needs to be done with darker values on the face of both the race and the mill. Once I scrape watercolor shavings into painting, I can't touch it anymore - smears and ruins it!!! I will re-do it, though for submission for juried show at "Art at the Mill" - in this glorious building - and I like where it's going!!! "Giles Mill" by Andrea Burke The perspective is off on this one and not enough detail on the wheel's paddles - or so they say! :-) Will have to completely redo this one if I want to enter it into a show! "Hays-Gerrard House" by Andrea Burke This needs to be re-done with more shading (again, can't touch it after I sanded watercolor pencils into wet areas!!!) Great learning lesson from Karlyn Holman's techniques!!! I'm working on 6 paintings at once - all involve several different layers and need to dry completely before the next. Kinda feel like I'm working in a factory, but it's fun!!! Thanks to Karlyn Holman and Linda Baker!!
I watched one of Linda Baker's DVDs on the techniques that she uses in her watercolor paintings. She does like 5 layers - each masked - to the point that the last layer is just the darks between the remainder of the painting which has been masked at various levels. She pours paint, she uses pipettes - lots of fabulous color and still keeps in mind elements and principals of design. I can't wait to try it!!!
"Surrounded by Angels" I did this one using new luminescent paints by Daniel Smith! And scraped watercolor pencils into water to create the checked "table cloth". This was another fun one to do. I'm going to take the next several days to watch DVDs by Karlyn Holman re abstract art. Should learn a lot about design in the process and look forward to playing with many, many new techniques in creating texture while keeping light and focal point in mind. Really outside of the box thinking for me and has to be good for me!!! Learn and grow - that's what it's all about! "Thank you Daddy" This was SO MUCH FUN to paint! I've been wanting to do it for a long, long time and couldn't figure out how to do the sheet music. Watercolor pencils are great, but look like crayon when used dry....I could have done pen and ink, but hard to draw something this tiny accurately. Then I learned about using Thai paper and voila!!! Taped it to sheet of copy paper, scanned the music and printed it! Paint write over it when it's dry! Very fun and I can't wait to find more uses for it. Thank you Karlyn Holman!!! "Be Safe, My Darling" This is my first use of "Thai Paper" on the letter. I'm so excited - what a cool technique! I'm hoping it "tells a story" without being too personal! This is from a photo of Jim's Dad who I sadly never had the pleasure of meeting. Still needs more tweaking and I'm in great need of a critique session - get well soon, Anna! :-) I've been reading new material by Karlyn Holman to paint with spontaneity to see if it will loosen me up a bit! Here is my first series of lessons - Storefronts in Shepherdstown. What do you think??? It's soooo different from what I normally do - starting by wetting the back of the paper, then the front of the paper and then putting wet paint on top of that! Not a lot of control, but the paints have a blast moving around!!
I like this one for the complementary colors - red and green - and use of chips to guide eye to focal point - course, this only works if you can see it! Where do you see focal point??? Lighter glass or pitcher??? Do you like the shadow of cactus to fill negative space?? Still needs more tweaking, but I like it so far! "Love Our Maggies, Too" - by Andrea Burke I need to do some more tweaking on this one - thinking the glasses of lemonaid need to be darker, so that the pitcher is the focal point. The gloves and hand rake point to it, so that's a good start! Purple and yellow are complimentary colors and I like how they came out in this piece. I'll post these and others on my gallery when they are finished!
This has been a fun painting to do, as I love working with glass and flowers. Still tweaking to see if I can make the glass figurines show up better! I'm slowly changing to Daniel Smith paints and they are so much brighter than what I've been using and I like working with them very much! "Tangerine" is one of 2012's trend colors, and I'm hoping to sell some "couch art" as they say! "Did you hear the one about the tortoise and the snail?" - by Andrea Burke I'm working on a new painting today - with glass and flowers - two of my most favorite subjects! I'm being careful about using only transparent watercolor paint, and keeping the reflections thru the glass rounded.
Nice rainy weekend - perfect for painting! Going to go thru the lessons from this book to learn to paint better flowers. It's easy to over-work them and make mud out of paints! Mud is good next to a puddle, but not in a flower! :-)
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