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I've been doing a lot of watercolor sketches lately in a small watercolor Moleskine that I picked up from Dick Blick. I'm really falling in love with watercolors. I love the way you can capture reflections with watercolor in a different way than oil painting. Oil painting allows a lot more manipulation of the paint; watercolor painting is more fragile and doesn't allow as much messing around. I think watercolors have a more poetic and transient feel to them, which I also am constantly trying to understand.
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I'm very proud to share these photos of my most recent commission. I just finished it today and I couldn't be happier. I still have to sign it and varnish it before I give it to my patron. This was a work with a lot of ups and downs, but I learned a lot by pushing through the tribulations and finishing it. Another painting session and I'll be able to finish this commission! I'm so happy with the way it's turning out! I had a lot of revelations while working on this piece and I'm very proud of it. I restarted this commission yesterday and worked on it more today. I just wasn't happy with how the first version looked so I decided to make a new canvas and restart. I'm so happy that I did that and I also set up a new very basic palette. It's a palette that I used when I was at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and I've decided to return to it with a few modifications. I'll list the palette below in case anyone's interested. I'm also trying to focus less on technique and just enjoying the act of painting. That's also why I gave myself a basic palette, I just want to focus on the painting and not get bogged down with other techniques. I just want to paint with my own brush. PAFA Basic Palette
Titanium White Silver White Flake White Cadmium Lemon Cadmium Yellow Cadmium Orange Cadmium Red (medium) Alizarin Crimson Brown Red (any earth red is good, such as Venetian) Burnt Sienna Green Gold (W+N, chromium oxide works also) Viridian Cobalt Blue Ultramarine Blue Raw Umber Burnt Umber Ivory Black Remember, less is more. |
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