Dailywatercolor - A Green World

Watercolor of the close up of a green plant on 15 x 22 inches cold press watercolor paper.  Still experimenting for mixing a nice green and with the wet in wet technique trying to work with the transparency quality of the watercolor.  I will try to follow the color and shade in the close up photo I took and work my watercolor follwoing it.  Later on as I look at the painting as a whole, I will try to change areas that I think might be better to convey my feeling toward this particular scene.  I will do that by adding or subtracting the value of a certain area so as to bring out another.  The watercolor is not finsihed until this step has been done.  I like to stand up and display the watercolor and look at it for a few days before I start doing this and usually is done in small sections in a different time.

Daily watercolor - A Green World

Started painting the watercolor painting A Green World.  It is on a 15 x 22 inches (half sheet) cold press Arches watercolor paper.  It is lots of fun doing the backgroud and green leaves of the plant always keeping the value in mind.  I know that the challange of this painting is to have different shades of green next to each other keeping in mind the separation of value between them so as to have them distinguish between each other in the painting.  Another challange I found is to keep the darker shade interesting by doing it in a variety of color shade but not make them turn into mud.  A layer of wash one after another is used for the dark shadows as well as the lighter ones.