"Basma pazarı - Textile market"
Watercolor sketch, 7"x5" $75
"Gecekondular - Shanties"
Watercolor sketch, 7"x5" $75
Two exercises in recording an impression quickly in watercolor.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Keep it simple...
"Gecekondular - Shanties"
Watercolor sketch, 7"x5" $75
Two exercises in recording an impression quickly in watercolor.
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I'm awestruck, Mineke--you certainly know how to rise to a challenge; I applaud your workmanlike approach to these "problems" ... and the results as well.
I have found wet-in-wet to be devilishly difficult; I admire how you were able to hold spaces to drop in pure color!
Thanks for your kind words, Laura. I think wet-in-wet may be a bit of a misnomer. In fact, I start out very wet, just dropping in colors and letting them mingle. As the paper gets to the damp stage, it's a good time to add some pure color. Perhaps this should be called "dry-into-wet", because it works best if you add it straight from the palette, no water added. I do the same with darks: they blend into surrounding colors a little, but not too much.
Painting wet-on-wet does indeed require a lot of skill and light-touch. Which you obviously have mastered. Excellent work.
Both so different and yet both so amazing in their own styles. Whichever way you paint you seem to master any watercolour techniques.
Thanks Villager and Liz. You are both very kind. No, I haven't mastered these techniques, I'm a perpetual student. The aim of this challenge is to learn to simplify and gain some confidence, but it's never easy.
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