Day 361 – sometimes u should stop

July 4, 2015July 4, 2015Leave a comment

when you are ahead. But first

Happy Fourth of July! From Brian Andres storypeople.com Obviously he’s had some experiences.

Things were going well after the first forty minute session. But THEN

I started adding more purple and Orange. Maybe because I still had an hour and a half to paint and didn’t bring any extra paper. Oops.

Should have stopped at this point. Oops.

And now she’s too orange and too purple. I have plans to further mess her up but will wait till tomorrow to proceed with the painting torture.
More tomorrow or maybe I will throw her in the bin?! Stay tuned. Will Erica survive her torture or not?!

Update! I decided to torture her some more.

Lightened the purple around her left eye. Need to work inner nose some more. I also lightened the oranges on her left arm and her hand. She has fingers again. Thanks for reading.

MArgaret with only four more days till I have posted everyday for a year!! ️Xxx

Day 360 – Island Dreaming 2

July 3, 2015July 3, 20152 Comments

I repainted it. This one is larger than the first one. 12×18

I am much happier with this painting than the last. If I could change anything it would to have used a light hand on the porch across the house. I would have liked to have done it more like the next picture. Maybe one more go round?! Probably not.

This was mostly painted with my Isabey mops. Next time I am putting up all my paint brushes but the mops so the small ones don’t call me. You paint a lot looser with the mops. Try them. You will love them.

Really like this glow. I should have taken a break and thought a while before I painted the bottom half of the painting.

Colors used : cad orange and Aureolin yellow, cerulean, mineral Violet, cobalt, every green I have, Inathridone, burnt umber and vermilion to make the grey on the Palm trunks. Some Quin red.

Here’s version 1 of Island Dreaming. I actually do like it just wish I had not gotten the tower as dark as it is. Which one do u like best??

Thanks for reading.

Margaret ️xxx

Day 359 a few more palms

July 2, 2015Leave a comment

Just thought I would trade you today with a few details of a redo on Island Dreaming. Who knows I may do a third one before I am happy with it. I do need to plan a little better. Ah the challenges of watercolor. Ultimately i lightened up the purple orange at the bottom and added some cobalt.

The beginning of the Palm trees. A mix of cad yellow light and Quin gold.

Juicy colors. The fun of watercolor is letting it do the playing. Of course the purple did not stay that dark darn it.

One more detail just to tease you. Will post the whole thing tomorrow. I think I used every green I own painting the palms and a few that I made.

Thanks for reading.

Margaret xxx

Day 358 Those Palm trees

July 1, 2015Leave a comment

been trying to paint Palm trees again not sure how successfully. I tend to get heavy handed with them or get too heavy with the darks. Then I have to lift some of the darks. No wait ALOT of the darks. Thank goodness this is on Fabriano.

I under painted a lot of the trees and the building with light yellow. The green is Daniel smith green apatite. The purple is mineral Violet.

My favorite detail because I like the way the colors blended and a lot of lights. Cobalt mineral Violet and cad orange blended for the darks.

Colors used. Lots of mineral Violet and cad orange a fun combo when painted wet on wet. There’s a lot of orange made with Quin gold and Quin red too. It’s not opaque like the cad orange is.