I'm still searching for a cool portraiture style for my watercolor studies. Last month, I painted a North African Muslim young man on Tyvek paper (bottom portrait). Cool stuff, and I even did a very successful workshop with this material. Problem is, is that I'm still in love with good old fashioned 140lb cold press watercolor paper. I have decided to go back to my expressive bright hued palette on cold press. This middle painting that I did yesterday unfortunately is way, way, WAAAY overwrought with clown-like, rainbow colors. Pooh! This is where the "hard" work of playing comes in...lots of intense painting time to end up with a complete botch job! Well that was yesterday. Today, I went back to "work" and painted this top portrait. I do believe that my hard work may be on the road to success...we shall see... mustn't jump to conclusions...stay tuned.
5 comments:
Thanks for sharing your play time - I like all three of these but think the middle did get a bit crazy with color :) Nothing wrong with that at times, though :)
very inspiring
Thanks for sharing the paintings and your thoughts- comparison with the other two does make the colors middle one seem like 'shouting' a bit - may be it will be ok on its own?
hmm I like the style of the bottom one still, but like the strength of colour in the middle one too. It's good to see your different versions.
Gracias, Rhonda, Geert-Jan, Meera, and Sue. Always appreciate your feedback!
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