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Daily Watercolor – A Green World

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 painting – A Green World

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.

Watercolor Daily – A Green World

Plant photo for watercolor

A sketch on grid 15 x 22 inches paper was the first step for this watercolor painting.  This is a close up I took during a recent visit in the Singapore Botanical Garden whre rare species and orchids bred are cultivated around the world.  I like the light and shade it presents in the photo and decided to do a watercolor painting of it in hslf sheet of cold press watercolor paper.  Photoshop was used to correct the color and cropped to the final size, a print was first made.  Then a full size sketch was made on paper.  The sketch is then transferred to the half sheet watercolor paper using carbon paper between the sketch and the watercolor paper.  Next, I would like complete  a value study on the sketch I made to indicate the value of the final painting.  I would be done in three values and in pencil just to give me an idea of where the values fall into.

Plant drawing on paper

Abstract Watercolor – Cool Memory

Abstract Watercolor - Cool Memory

This watercolor abstract was done on a small sheet of cold press watercolor paper.  Red and blue was used in contrast with other colors to excite the visual aspect of the viewer.  I named this watercolor abstract Cool Memory.  Layers of watercolor pigment was applied with a large brush using wet in wet technique.  Tissue was used to bolt out some color in the background to give it an interesting texture.  Layers of color also added when previous layer has dried.  A rigger paint brush was used for different lines and at the end, salt effet was used on the still wet areas.

Daily watercolor painting – Toward the Sunrise

Toward the Sunrise - Watercolor 15 x 20 inches

I have completed painting the Toward the Sunrise watercolor painting last night.  It was not as time consuming as I thought it would.  It was painted using Winsor and Newton watercolor and also Da Vinci Watercolor paints on cold press watercolor paper.  Watercolor from the tube was spatter on one layer at a time and it works for this kind of watercolor painting.  I feel that the bottom green shade of the painting should be a darker shade and should carry a darker value.  I think that needs to be changed.  The little lonley tree on the right side need to be darker as well.  I will try to correct this tonight and that should give the overall watercolor painting more contrast so that the upper part of the painting should resulted in a much more sunrise glow.  This I will try to achieve tonight.

Watercolor Painting Daily – Landscape Painting

Landscape Watercolor Painting

Continue with this landscape watercolor painting last night doing the rocks and trees.  It is lots of fun doing this kind of watercolor painting makes me slow down and learn several different aspects in watercolor.  One thing I learn from this exercise is to take my time in my painting.  Doing a painting quick sometimes has opposite efficts and because watercolor painting is to leave blank the areas you want to have less watercolor paint, planning is very important.  Good planning in sketching and the value before I apply the color is as important as applying the color on the watercolor paper.  Patients is also necessary to let the watercolor paint to dry between layers.  I also learn the amount of water in my brush is very important as well.  It affects the intensity of the watercolor as well as the saturation of the watercolor paint.  Also keep a clean wash bucket of water is just as important and I learn not to be lazy and change water often.

Daily watercolor painting blog – Landscape final

Watercolor Landscape - in progress

Watercolor Landscape - Final

I believe I have finished fine tuning my landsccape watercolor last night and here is the result.  The first one is the progress and changes I have made earlier and the second one shows the final painting.  I have changed the value of the path by adding more darker tones and also some minor adjustment of colors in the various area of the painting.

Watercolor Painting – Landscape

Landscape watercolor painting

This 10 x 20 inches watercolor painting has been painted but there is much to be corrected.  First of all there is a new experiment of putting on watercolor using colors without mixing.  I try to use paint out from the tube and put in layers of watercolor paint from the lightest shade to the darkest without any mixing except on the paper itself.  The lighter color was put on first and then when it is dry, the next layer of darker shade.  The paint is not mixed but sometimes diluted with water to achieve a different intensity or value.  As you can see from the rocks on the right, the color is more intense because I have use it right from the watercolor tube.  The trick to this is not to mix any color and wait for one layer to dry before applying the next.