Red Riding Hood
Watercolor 11 X 15
Our third exercise in the Elaine Charney workshop was to paint a path in the woods. We were painting fast and furious, and pretty wet. Her method of painting tree trunks was a new one to me. She made vertical lines of little brush widths of alternating mineral violet and burnt sienna. Then with a wet brush barely touching the wet paint we drew the brush down starting skinny and ending fatter at the bottom. The wet paint spread into the water from the brush stroke and made a tree trunk dark on one side and light on the other. While it was still wet we drew in branches still using the wet paint from the edge. It was magic! I could still put in some more grasses or flowers in the foreground but before we knew it, it was lunch time and the afternoon was another painting.
Super good Jan ! Love it. I'd like the technique used here, I'm always trying to get that wet in wet and looser style.. Not easy for me.. I always wind up nit-pickin'.
ReplyDeleteIn this workshop there was no time to get nit-picky. we were doing one painting right after another.
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