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Abstract Watercolor Painting – Flower

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Abstract Watercolor Painting - 5 x 7 inches

Abstract Watercolor Painting - 5 x 7 inches

This is a 5 x7  abstract watercolor painting I did last night.  It was done in Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper.  It was quite a fun exercise practicing my basic watercolor technique using flat wash, wet in wet, paint on dry paper and spatter and letting the watercolor paint run by holding the paper at an angle.  Salt is also used in areas of the flower.  One of the difficult thing about doing this watercolor is to  decide which way the watercolor should be up or the top.  I will look at it daily and may be it will inspire me to make some changes and decide which way the painting should look.  I will sign my abstract watercolor painting after I determine that.

Watercolor Painting – Old Corkscrew

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Watercolor Painting - 7.5 x 10 inches - Old Cockscrew

Watercolor Painting - 7.5 x 10 inches - Old Corkscrew

Painted an old corkscrew last night.  I am attracted by the wooden handle contrasting with the sharpness of the metal.  It is done on a 7.5 x 10 inches sheet of cold press watercolor paper.  The texture of the wooden handle gave me the most trouble while trying to get the right color and shade in applying the watercolor to it.  The metal part needs lots of patience on painting it and have to leave white area of reflection where necessary.  I also use a dry square oil paint brush to apply dots of color on the metal shaft of the corkscrew as well as on the screw part.  A toothbrush is also use to flick watercolor paint on to the wooden handle to give it an antique effect.

Watercolor Painting – Two Chili Peppers

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Two Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Two Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Last night I did a 5 x 7 inches watercolor painting of two chili peppers.  One is red and the other one is orange and yellow.  It is a good exercise to practice the color wash and the use of watercolor pigments.   The red chilli pepper is done with a mixture of reds and is put in layers.  Highlight is done using clean water on the paper before the red layer is applied.  Later on the highlights are lifted with a wet bristle brush.  More darker red is applied to the shadow side of the red chili pepper.  The yellow and orange pepper is done the same way with different pigments of watercolor.  Shadows is then applied as layers of blue purple watercolor on dry paper and then other more intense watercolor layer is put on top.  A little fun exercise.

Dragon Fruit Watercolor Painting

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Dragon Fruit Watercolor Still Life Painting

Dragon Fruit Watercolor Painting

Pitaya Fruit, Pitahaya Fruit or just call it Dragon Fruit is full of nutrients and said to be good for blood pressure, and obesity.  Hopefully I ate this one after painting it will let me loose a few pounds.  Wishful thinking I guess.  Well, apart from the nutritional value, this fruit is really pretty with red, purple and green color on the outside.  I started this dragon fruit watercolor painting with lots of wet in wet wash in different areas.  When dry, anther layer of color is added on top to arrive to the final intensity.  I made a sketch on a 7.5 x 10 inches cold press watercolor paper and start the painting with the light value first.  The difficult part was to keep the paper wet for the wet in wet wash and then make it dry again for the next layer or area of paint.  It is long process and needs lots of patients.  Anyone who have not painted a dragon fruit before should try.  It is fun.

Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting – Still Life

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Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting using flat wash

My daily painting in watercolor is another red Chili Pepper.  If is purposely painted with watercolor in a different way and style mainly using flat wash.  It is drawn on a 5 x 7 inches 140 Arches Cold Press Watercolor paper.  I did this Chili Pepper Watercolor painting in layers of wash.  It is first started with the lightest one of the whole Pepper leaving out the very bright highlights.  Then when it is completely dry, I put on another layer taking in consideration of the tones and shapes of the subject.  Then layer upon layer of flat wash after every layer is completely dry creates the effect of color and gives its shape.  Simple outline on some of the lighter shapes is done last.  The stem of the pepper is done the same way.  I must say I have the most fun in doing the shadows.  It is the same application of flat wash one on top of another for this special watercolor painting effect.

Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting – Red

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Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting - 5 x 7 inches

Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting - 5 x 7 inches

This is a 5 x 7 inches watercolor painting of a red chili pepper.  I try to apply a wash for a background instead of leaving it white as many of my last paintings.  This is a still life using artist Winsor and Newton watercolor and is done on cold press watercolor paper.   This one was done by painting the chili pepper first and leave the background and the shadow for last.  I will try to do one where I paint the background first and leave the pepper and shadow for last.  Then I would like to do another one with an underpainting for the entire sheet of paper before I paint the subject and the background.  It would be a good exercise for me to learn the property of the transparent watercolor.

Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

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Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

This is another red chili pepper study I did.  It is really lots of fun and I recommend anyone who likes to do watercolor try these ATC (artist trading card) size studies.  These are done using Winsor and Newton artist watercolor paint on cold press watercolor paper.  I will try to continue with my larger ballroom dance painting I started but I seems to have a block on continue with it.  Could it be that I have done so many of these 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 small studies that larger ones like the 15 x 20 inch ballroom painting is too intimtating?  Anyone got the same feeling before?  May be I should go on with an intermediate one of 8 x 10 before I go on bigger ones.  Anyone, I must get over it because I like to started painting ballroom art because that is one of my passion too.

Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting – ATC

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Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting ATC

Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting ATC

This is another one of my small 2 1/2 in by 3 1/2 in Chili Pepper done in watercolor.  I did it very late in the evening before going to bed.  It does not take long and I urge if anyone likes to paint, they should do a little every day even though you don’t seems to have time for any.  For practice and getting back into things, I know that practice doing it 10 minutes a day is better than doing 60 minutes in one day and skip 5 days. Comments welcome.