This was one of the projects this week at the Chris Leeper watercolor workshop. His challenge on this one was to do a painting using 3 primary colors - a blue, a yellow and a red. I used Pthalo Blue, Quindacridone Red, and Cadmium Yellow medium. It is amazin that you can get such a wide range of colors with just 3 colors - even the saturated darks (which used a lot of paint! :) We were allowed to select our own source pictures so I selected this still life from the reference library at WetCanvas.com. After layering in the dark background, I found that I had to go back into the fruit and add more color because the dark background faded out the colors. This is painted on Fabriano Artistico 140 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper and is on 1/4 sheet of paper.
6 comments:
This is beautiful, Barb! I think the additional layers of color to the fruit was an inspired move. They have a light from within now that just sets this piece apart!
I would have been happy with "faded" fruit since that would have meant that the dark background made the fruit "pop". This rich color looks so right in this case, just a real old-master feel to it. You are just good!
Indeed, as Susan said, you are good, really good!!! And fast!
The fruit simply glow!
AutumnLeaves - thank you so much for saying that - I kept adding glaze after glaze and began to wonder if I was doing the right thing!
Susan - Thanks for being - always - so supportive! I was working for an old master feel to this!
Christiane - I must have used half of my paint up on this background - and not as fast as you think! (smile!)
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