Friday, April 22, 2011

Re-do

Still in warm-up mode, getting ready to approach larger scale landscape paintings of Tuscany. Yesterday's painting was muddy and dark, today's painting is light, airy but with less detail. I also wanted to focus on the actual building structures and I needed to draw them in pencil first, something I rarely do. I kept telling myself "less is more" because my tendency is to overwork a painting, big no-no with watercolor.

"Springtime in Tuscany", watercolor, 18" x 20"




9 comments:

  1. Great work. At first I thought it was coloured pencil.

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  2. I like them both! Another lovely piece!

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  3. OMGosh!!! This is beautiful Robin. Your diversity amazes me. I love the colors!!!

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  4. Drawing with pencil changed the overall look, Mark... I liked it too.

    Sherry, I worked on the first version some more and trust me, it's a muddy mess now!

    Pam, the colors felt spring-like to me, the hardest part was keeping it "clean".

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  5. This is beautiful, Robin, and the buildings are the focus. Memories from your past vacation are part of your future. I guess that meshes with "The past is prologue." This will be exciting for those of us who followed your travel.

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  6. I never know when a new series of work is going to happen, maybe it just started.

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  7. Lovely colors Robin and I like the cluster of buildings. I do 'feel' Tuscany :O)

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  8. I love the lightness of color, Eva. The version I am working on now already feels dark (just the buildings) so it may still work.

    Deborah, sunshine and rolling hills, with rows of trees and vines, that's what I think of too.

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