I absolutely love the strong emotive quality to your ocean paintings. They SPEAK to me. I am an artist as well and love the spontaneous expression of watercolor...can I ask, how you achieve the white wave areas? Are you pulling the white out or are you adding white guache or acrylic over? Love, love, love jennifer vikingknitter@yahoo.com
Thank you very much, Jennifer! They're about emotions as much as they're about the sea, I think. I do both, actually - lifting out and using white gouache and white watercolour as bodycolour. In this one (I think!), I've lifted a lot of colour out with water and stiff brushes and then strenghtened the lights in some places with bodycolour. I haven't got a set method, but my paintings tend to be a process of laying down colour, pulling it out and laying it down again, in layers. I use strong paper as it can take quite a battering, particularly in the darker ones. James x
Wonderful rain at sea. I can feel it and the emotion of it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda. My sea paintings are about emotions, really. :)
DeleteI absolutely love the strong emotive quality to your ocean paintings. They SPEAK to me. I am an artist as well and love the spontaneous expression of watercolor...can I ask, how you achieve the white wave areas? Are you pulling the white out or are you adding white guache or acrylic over? Love, love, love
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Thank you very much, Jennifer! They're about emotions as much as they're about the sea, I think. I do both, actually - lifting out and using white gouache and white watercolour as bodycolour. In this one (I think!), I've lifted a lot of colour out with water and stiff brushes and then strenghtened the lights in some places with bodycolour. I haven't got a set method, but my paintings tend to be a process of laying down colour, pulling it out and laying it down again, in layers. I use strong paper as it can take quite a battering, particularly in the darker ones.
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