Tuesday 31 March 2015

Tropical fish - did you miss these blue fishes?

I did miss them, and decided to have another go but this time a bit larger, as my previous watercolors of tropical blue fishes were all of them ACEO size (and most of them already sold). The first two of the new paintings are ready, size 7x5 inches. Both done with my usual watercolor palette (mix of Daniel Smith, W&N and American Journey) on Saunders Waterford 140 lb CP paper.


More to come this week!

Sunday 22 March 2015

Autumn leaves and water drops

Back in November 2014 I did a few studies and paintings of autumn leaves and water drops, that I didn't manage to scan until the previous days. Although it is not the right season for this subject, you might like to see them. I had some reference photos taken on a rainy day, during a short sunny spot, with some leaves still holding on the tree. I started these studies to prepare a short demo for the watercolor workshop, working on the simplest composition, but then I moved on to a more complex painting and with a stronger blue sky, which I like a lot how it come out in the end.

Here is the final painting, watercolor on paper, size ~10x7 inches.







 This is the smaller study that I started with (5x7 inches):




Here is the simplified version that we worked with during the workshop (again 5x7 inches):



And this is an imaginary study of water drops on a plant leaves, just to show how to make the drops and their cast shadow: