Continuing Education - January 11, 2020

- January 11, 2020

Tonight I finished watching the final segment of my Laura Horn art class called Watercolor Explorations. To prepare for the final piece, we were directed to take a look at all the work we'd done and choose the parts of everything we liked best: color swatches, mark making, and bleeding/hard edge samples.

I decided to work with four main colors (moonglow, mayan blue, transparent red oxide & white). I wanted to make sure I balanced my hard & soft edges (that's something I've never tried before in paintings and I'm really enjoying it). After I laid down the initial layers of paint, I looked for places that needed a different pop of color. I added some purple madder for contrast and some quinacridone gold deep for warmth & a yellow glow.

Then I watched paint dry.

moonglow disperses into the most beautiful colors - it's like getting 3 colors in one!

One of the accidental shapes I did in my exercises was a doughnut hole in a circle. It's one of those weird things
I'll never be able to justify or explain to anyone else, but I put it here because I like it.

The purple madder bleeding into the transparent red oxide mixed with white is mellifluous...

Here's the piece so far.

Tomorrow I'll look at the painting and decide what other marks I want to put on it. I usually add pen, but we'll see if I stay traditional or try something different.

It occurred to me tonight that I am so lucky to live now. I can take classes (that I like) from home! I am still learning new things and it's ok! Growth! Growth! Growth!