mountains -1, w/c aceo
I have been doing a lot of pastel work recently, but last week we had a demonstrator take us thru the use and abuse of watercolour pencils. ( will blog this at a later date) I decided to try my hand with some watercolour aceo's. I selected a theme of mountains ( always like to do a few on a particular theme, as it seems to help with the process) and started to paint. The trouble with switching from one media to another ( frequently) is that it sometimes seems like you are taking one step forward and two steps back. And as I expected the first couple of pieces are not terribly good. I am posting them them here because I expect that over the next couple of weeks I will be able to show you an improvement. The first was not one of my best but the second was even worse - maybe I got too carried away. I wanted to use earth colours instead of the blues in the last painting.
mountains -2, w/c aceo
The distant peak on the right looks wrong al;though it is not too far away from the reference. BTW aceo's are 3.5 x 2.5 inches if you are not familiar with the acronym for this small art format.
I will be blogging the watercolour pencil evening soon and there will be more mountains to come, thanks for coming.
Hey, welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. I just started one recently too. Good luck! I like how the structure of the paper shows through these art cards, maybe because they are so small it seems more structured than it is?
ReplyDeleteHi Caatje, yes the structure/grain of the paper is very large compared to the overall dimensions. Thanks for your comment
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