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Watercolor - Watercolor Painting; Let Your Gut Do The Thinking
This is how it starts. It all starts with the manner at how things are approached. Unlike other mediums, the beauty of the watercolor is its unpredictability. With it go the uniqueness and the surprise. That is why no two watercolor paintings are totally alike. Other mediums could be manipulated and tweaked by the artist for the most part. With watercolor, the artist typically goes where the water goes. Manipulations are done but the water generally dictates the phase, and then he proceeds to create art that are totally different from those that preceded it.
Do not let the moment pass. To put it another way, watercolor painting is something like jazz music. You will jam and create music this moment and if the spirit hits you, you will never be able to replicate the same music a second time, similar maybe but not quite. As with jazz, when working with watercolor, you go with the flow. It could be tweaked yes, redirected yes, but the water and the pigment will not wait. Once the moment and the creative eye escape you, it escapes forever, or you anticipate another one because usually it does.
Let Loose. The best artworks ever created by man are those whose final results are not totally anticipated. Of course there is always the general idea. The final outcome is an idea too. But to be fixated on a final outcome is to create art that is too rigid and too frozen. The best poets and writers will tell you anytime that to write well is to start with an idea and then let the characters do the job and keep on writing what hits you at the moment. Use less of your brain and think with your guts. That way unexpected results happen. Beautiful results, because art is an emotional thing. Masterpieces were done that way. In watercolor it is the same thing if not more so.
But first you must work. It is the knowing and mastering of the rules first that will enable you to break the rules with appropriateness and masterful art. It is the constant practice. Masters of the art developed the passion not because the passion was always there. It is the constant desire to create better that immersed them in the discipline that made them good. When the time spent is sufficient, the eye and the hand coordinate more freely that judgments in proportions, colors, and styles are developed.
Watercolor painting like all mediums of art has its own challenges and difficulties. But with the mastery come the reward and the satisfaction that always happen sooner if not later. Watercolor a hard medium? Not actually just different.
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It shows a great deal of patience and skill. However, you could explore the colors of shadows. One of the great beauties of watercolor is that shadows can be extremely colorful and still read completely realistic. The shadow in the doorway needs to be more transparent, revealing just a bit of what is under that intriguing archway. All of your shadows are painted in gray. . . but in reality if you sit and study outdoor shadows in bright sun, you will find violet and blue and even reds in them. Here is one online demo that shows how rich and deep a painting becomes when you use other colors to make shadows. http://www.mightyartdemos.com/mightyartdemosfrbksabgott.html
Even if you want your shadows to be gray, mix your gray. Red and blue with a touch of yellow make gray, as do a lot of other combos. And let the colors mix on the paper, wet-into-wet to get natural looking transparent shadows like the ones in the demo. I usually wet the paper and then drop in some blues and red, letting them run together and mix it up to make a lovely violet. I also notice whether the edge of the shadow is crisp or fuzzy, and before the paper has dried, if the edges need to be softened I lift some color with a clean damp bush, dabbing along the edge I wish to soften. Sometimes I will lightly blot (just once or twice at the most) a shadow with a crumbled tissue to give it some light and dark spots . . . just like real shadows have!
Your painting would be twice as enchanting if you learned to mix colors and use color effectively. Everything you have painted in this piece is painted the exact color the objects are. . . but not necessarily the colors we see there on a sunny day. The sky is one shade of blue and not particularly interesting, and you have not repeated blue anywhere else in the painting to unify it. This is where shadows made with dropped in reds and blues would liven it up and give it some unity. The driveway could have been textured by dropping in a pinch or two of salt while the paint was still wet. Salt gives a lovely twinkly texture http://www.nitaleland.com/faq/images/salt.jpg that can be played with and overglazed to make anything from an sandy beach to falling leaves.
One more thing. . .the curved window . . . some of the details are out of perspective, which detracts from the curve you have worked hard to portray, leaving it flat. Check all your lines before you paint to be sure you have nothing that will sabotage your hard work.
I look forward to seeing more of your work. Do not be afraid to introduce some blues and violets into your foliage, some color into your shadows, and some texture into your painting! With your style and skill you could have some incredibly wonderful works ahead of you!
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