Well, it gets worse. This trio is secondary colours - what a crazy challenge I set myself to paint something with this.
Same lifting problems as last time. I tried to use it to my advantage, but I just couldn't get the deep darkness I wanted. Adding layers to make it darker, lifted the old layer and made it lighter. It's like opposite to what I would expect watercolours to do.
The reference I used for this is a photo I took a few years back in the local park. Dappled light through the leaves and a face that caves in on itself. Brilliant.
After Halloween, thousands of pumpkins, carved, melted, burnt, and rotting, appear in one of the local parks. It's a marvelous thing to see.
We like to pretend wildlife eats them all, but in reality the tax dollars clean them up. Money well spent. I wonder if the weather will let me go with my paint set instead of just a camera this year?
1 comment:
Interesting experiment, and I think the pumpkin painting looks pretty good. So many nuances to water color painting. Seems like you could have a lifetime of exploration.
Working from real life instead of a photo sounds like an excellent idea. Real life is so much more 3-D than photographs. Surely it would make a difference for the painter.
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