Yesterday in Camden the weather was again overcast and windy. For my demonstration I wanted to paint a more sunny day and to be able to acentuate the early fall colors. I designed my painting on the foundation of solid white shapes and limited my shapes to about 4 major shapes. Doing this improved my focus and barring a total disaster in the colors and application of paint gave me a shot a solid composition. I amplified the colors and brightened the sky from my memory of sunny days in Maine and here is the result. Oh and I added the cows from another part of the field, they just didn’t want to pose for me. Enjoy and have a nice day.
watercolor on 300lb arches paper
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What good teaching to paint plein air, about how to invent a climate that we dont have in front of us, or add figures to our scene from another part of the view in order to give a center of interest. The watercolor that you have uploaded is beautiful. Thanks Steve.