Today. in class, we experimented with wet on wet watercolour painting. There were a series of images provided for stimulus. I chose a sunrise and adapted it to a sunrise in a rainstorm.
I'm pleased with the progress at this point. I love manipulating the colours by turning the paper so that they flow into one another.
I worked a second version without the rainstorm. Not sure I like this one as much.
All stimulus images were of skies. I couldn't resist adding the sea below. When the class moved on to larger versions of other images, I pulled up the sunrise at Sandy Gulls on my phone.
We were working with a limited palette so this was a bit challenging. I enjoy a challenge if I think I can make a good attempt at it. With only dark(ish) blue, yellow, ochre, and red, this was the final version.
In the last half-hour, I turned to another photo on my phone. It was taken at Long Beach on the October Road Trip, and had clouds with which to experiment - by leaving the paper dry so that wet watercolour applied to the wet patches didn't run onto the dry (It's magic, really.)
I made the mistake of overworking the clouds and couldn't mix the correct colour for the dark shadows. But today's class was great.
I'm learning a lot and will be sad when the course ends next week. Kate doesn't have a gap until next March to run a follow-up class. I am always very tired at the end of two and a half hours, but very satisfied with what I've achieved. Tomorrow will be another duvet day
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