this is a watercolor on paper 4 by 12 inches $25.00
Before I started this month’s theme I was working on a series of red tulips, you may look back and see four I painted…. I don’t really have them out of my system so here are a couple of more tulips I painted this week
this is 7 by 7.5 watercolor onpaper
$45.00
Also …a painting tip… the dark background in Tall Tulip.. is pathalo blue and indigo painted with a 1 inch flat brush in a random cross hatching manner and sprayed with water before it had time to dry.
Tags: art lesson, tulips
August 10, 2008 at 9:44 pm |
Is that how you got those wonderful water blotchy /light fliltering through affects on your koi? I tried sprinking the wet background with curse salt but it dont have the same look. *grabs paints to try*
August 10, 2008 at 9:46 pm |
*sigh* proofread, JoAnn, proof read… substitute “effects” and “coarse” for the two mispelled words up there.
August 10, 2008 at 11:28 pm |
I almost always use water to get the blotchy effect that is in the taller tulip background. You paint the background and while it is still a bit wet… you spray water using a fine mister or a small water droplet spray bottler. You can blot to remove lots of color or just allow the droplets to dry for a speckled appearance. If you hate it, you can paint over it by glazing ( use the same color or an analogous color) or paint very wet into wet washes, this also will given even more interesting texture.
Shanti Marie
Artist