I have been having a wonderful time in Maine with some of the greatest students in the world, a creative and intrepid lot who brave the elements of early fall on the coast of Maine. We have had it all fabulously wonderful light filled days and windy and cold hunker down next to the wall adventures. But the paintings have been great and the group of oil and watercolor painters have really lifted this workshop to the best ever. We moved indoors to escape the elements and worked on still lifes, florals, and composition and design. Here is my demonstration using some wild flowers and pieces of tree branches, and wonderful new consignment shop pots.
watercolor on 300 lb paper
image of the set up I used for the painting. I worked on composing the image to create a solid mass shape and to take it off the page on the top and the side. I left the background white to really isolate the set up to be one really exciting shape and painting the pieces in natural light, no spots or floods. Without directional lights, creating the form and shadows is a little harder yet fun to do. I also explained and demonstrated the technique of a continuous contour line drawing that allows you to get the proportions and perspective correct without any measuring struggles. Learn to draw and express yourself with wonderful expressive line.
The game with light, hadows and colos is givig amazig results Wonderful!
Makes me want to go back to watercolor!
Thank you Steve. Your writing always teach or remind something to me. This time I liked to see your interpretation of the subject and why, to see the original image and your wonderful, super paint. They have also entered me desire to try continuous line drawing.
Oooooooh; this is a very different subject for you and I like it a LOT.
Thanks I love painting flowers and pots but rarely do it since I am some what challenged when setting up the still life and arranging the flowers.
The wild flower painting is just beautiful. I want to paint flowers like that!
I love it too but I love painting flowers but I hate setting them up. Just paint directly and all will be good and use the side of your brush.