I've been reading Making Colors Sing by Jeanne Dobie. I'd thought that I'd try out some topics from that book and I did get there in a roundabout fashion here--background glazing with yellows and violets to push the brighter violets to the foreground. More on that book and its ideas to come.
Lovely! The golds and violets really do sing. I particularly like the mixture of blue-greens with khakis and softer mid-greens in the grass and stems, though.
ReplyDeleteHey thanks! I think this is the first time I actually mix paints in a watercolor. All these mixing exercises leave me feeling like my little robins--too young to fly well but still with a set of wings.
ReplyDeleteHah! Maybe the wings were there all along and now the feathers are getting longer ... :-)
ReplyDeleteYa, wings are okay, but this tail is beginning to get quite uncomfortable. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWow John, this is really wonderful; your colors are so soft and delicate, yet they glow!
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Oh thank you, Gretchen! :-) I'm thinking that the time has come to simply paint every day. It seems that everything is an experiment. :-)
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