I would have been back on the watercolour today but there were various things breaking…
Daniella Taking A Break
So, yeah, tonight was the night to christen the art studio. But, what with one thing and another, it wasn’t until about 7pm that I finally got the chance to head outside. A watercolour needs a bit of planning, so there was no way I was going to finish a painting and tomorrow’s looking busy, so I thought I’d do a figure painting in inktense pencil. With that medium and subject, ai could actually take my time and still produce something.
I picked a pose by Daniella. This is her second appearance on gh8s blog. Colour-wise, I used pretty well everything. I tried to be light with the colours but with that many of them, even playing it light means there’s too much pigment on the paper. My excuse is that I’ve not done much painting lately, so needed to go full on. I guess it’s good that I got this out my system on this painting rather than ruining a watercolour landscape.
So, yeah, too much colour. I’m not sure I like these colours either. There’s too much purple, yellow and green and not enough red and blue. It’s definitely red and blue for me next time. I tried a couple of rescue tactics on this one: a second layer of colour and some sketchy looking outlining. I’m not sure whether they’ve made the painting better or worse but what I can say is that it was a flop before the rescue attempt and it’s still a flop afterwards.
And, thinking about this one the following day, I think I was concentrating too much on trying to brush light colours into dark colours and not enough on sculpting the 3D shapes with my brushstrokes.
So a bit of an anticlimax but I’m hoping to have a long day out there on Sunday and to start producing some absolute bangers.
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