"Springtime in Tuscany", watercolor, 18" x 20"
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.
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Great work. At first I thought it was coloured pencil.
ReplyDeleteI like them both! Another lovely piece!
ReplyDeleteOMGosh!!! This is beautiful Robin. Your diversity amazes me. I love the colors!!!
ReplyDeleteDrawing with pencil changed the overall look, Mark... I liked it too.
ReplyDeleteSherry, 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".
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.
ReplyDeleteI never know when a new series of work is going to happen, maybe it just started.
ReplyDeleteLovely colors Robin and I like the cluster of buildings. I do 'feel' Tuscany :O)
ReplyDeleteVery nice Robin... I feel sunshine...
ReplyDeleteI love the lightness of color, Eva. The version I am working on now already feels dark (just the buildings) so it may still work.
ReplyDeleteDeborah, sunshine and rolling hills, with rows of trees and vines, that's what I think of too.