Posts Tagged ‘Watercolor’
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I didn’t plan on doing this landscape to start with, and it is an adaption of some of the landscape elements I found in Gatlinburg and some of the landscape elements from the Spring Canyon Park landscape I did last summer in Colorado. I added the snow on top of everything with white “watercolor” (I suspect it’s gouache) flicked off of the end of a rounded brush. the roads were actually a mistake in trying to put some tree structure in the foreground. I think it adapted pretty well, and if I hadn’t done that landscape in Spring Canyon Park I probably never would have considered that fix to my mistake. I like this one a lot better than the first one.
This is a quick and dirty landscape I did in the evening, looking from a hotel over the Gatlinburg strip. It’s very Impressionist (fancy word meaning lacking details) in many fashions, primarily because I was dealing with fast-changing light conditions. I am really pleased with the ski lift lights and the choice I made to oversimplify the town with grays, browns (for roofs) and yellow for lights. The orange-yellow in the sky isn’t quite right, but I lost it before I was able to really capture it.
Landscape looking North of Fort Collins from the CSU Library, 2nd Floor (watercolor pencils, unwashed).
This is the first watercolor pencil drawing that I washed with a brush. I learned a lot doing this one, including that I’d really like to have a watercolor set and watercolor paper eventually. I’ll surely be doing more of these as time allows.