I'm back did yah miss me! lol, just kidding. I got a new painting to write about today. This one I recently finished. It is a watercolor ,gouache painting ,called Daffodils of Spring. This was from a photo I took this spring and decided to paint it. I am going to write a bit today about the process of how I start and paint a painting. Most of the time I paint from photos, as I take many of them to use for my work. I would rather take my own then have to worry about using someone else 's. I really think it is so much better to use your own photos ,then it is Truly Yours! To start, I look at the many I have, sometimes it takes awhile because I am looking for something specific, like the light, or a feeling with the light. Sometimes it is color with light. In most of my work I try to portray light as it falls on a flower or the patterns light creates in a landscape or still life. When I finally find what I want to paint, I will crop a photo also and maybe, intensify the contrast or color. I decide what kind of paint or medium I want to use. I print the photo and start to paint. Here, as I said above I used gouache. Gouache is one of my favorite mediums. It is so very flexible. It can be so much like acrylics or oils and can be so much as watercolor can be. If you would like to read more about how to use gouache paint check out the Kindle book I wrote at this link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E2T1CLQ
In this book, I go into a lot more detail about painting with Gouache. In this painting as I hope you can see, I tried to use color in a very harmonic way. I wanted colors to blend and look comfortable with each other. I look into the shadows and try to put color into them, more than just black and white. There is so much color around us, as artists we have to train our eyes to see it, so others can learn to see it as well. Color in shadows and in objects, I think gives a painting much more interest and depth. I exaggerate it at times. That is up to you though.
That is my little painting lesson for today. I hope you have enjoyed it and I will wright again soon to share more artistic words of wisdom. Blessings to All. bye for now:) A
In this book, I go into a lot more detail about painting with Gouache. In this painting as I hope you can see, I tried to use color in a very harmonic way. I wanted colors to blend and look comfortable with each other. I look into the shadows and try to put color into them, more than just black and white. There is so much color around us, as artists we have to train our eyes to see it, so others can learn to see it as well. Color in shadows and in objects, I think gives a painting much more interest and depth. I exaggerate it at times. That is up to you though.
That is my little painting lesson for today. I hope you have enjoyed it and I will wright again soon to share more artistic words of wisdom. Blessings to All. bye for now:) A