September 27, 2020
Experiments in watercolor and pastel!
Heavy Handed - January 20, 2020
I want to do more large-scale heart paintings and thought a rainbow would look nice. I made swatches of each color family and chose my favorite shade from each to make my rainbow.
Then I made a swatch of all the rainbow shades to make sure they worked well together.
I hated it.
The rainbow is lovely, but too heavy-handed, too saturated. The artists I follow on social media use a light touch which is probably why I admire them. That's not my usual thing.
Since I already had the colors out, I thought I would try again. I put down the water - so MUCH water - there was no way it would work. Then I touched teensy bits of color down, ROYGBIV. I flicked color and more water.
And it worked.
Never give up! Never surrender!
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