Thursday, October 4, 2007

Pottery study

Daily painting #34
9x12 watercolor on Arches hotpress
Available for $55 including shipping
Today's painting was an exercise to use different methods to compose a design. First I placed the object in the center of the composition. Then I used a one inch filbert brush. Thirdly I applied very thin washes of color and kept the paper wet, blotting off any unwanted color bleeding. I added minimal final touches to achieve some detail on the jar handle.
Two things about the image that you are seeing, the yellow is actually slightly more subtle olive, and the blue of the jar handle is less, the phthalo blue that you see, and more the slate color of ultramarine thin washes.
thankyou for looking!

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