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By: Linda Kay,
on 9/2/2016
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"When Hearts Take Flight" (watercolor on paper, 7" x 10"). This little piece began as a series of wet-into-wet washes. After the washes dried, I looked for possible shapes or hints in the direction that I might want to take. That's when I saw the dove. I added shadows and forced shapes to come forward (hearts and ribbons) but left the dove basically the same soft shape. The color scheme is warm (oranges and reds) with blue accepts. "When Hearts Take Flight" is available for purchase on my
website (under "Watercolor Weekly).
"Roughly Speaking" was juried into the 41st Annual Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Exhibition, June 9 - August 28, 2016, Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado Watercolor Society/co-host.
I'm a member of the Southwestern Watercolor Society.
More of my work can be viewed on
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Yesterday I painted a plein-air sketch of a flower garden using transparent watercolor. I also added a few touches of colored pencils, white gouache, and chalk.
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HD tutorial Watercolor in the Wild
I shared this sketch a few years ago, but just found some video clips so you can see what the scene looked like. (Link to video) Previous post: A Family Eating Dinner, 1760 style
Yesterday Jeanette and I decide to try out an experiment.
It's the day before graduation at Bard College. Students are roaming around campus with their parents. We place the typewriter on a table in the student center, and I arrange the sketch easel.
We hope the typewriter will lure someone to pose for an impromptu portrait. First Cullan, and then his mom, try it out.
We set up the iPad to webcast the action via Facebook Live. The first session has audio issues due to problems with our old iPad (sorry). We switch over to an Android cellphone, and then it works fine. Here's the 16 minute webcast. (Link to video).
I start sketching Jeanette, but abandon the start and turn the page when Kathleen sits down. I lay down a few lines in watercolor pencils, then launch off with brush and watercolor to place the main shapes. With progressively smaller brushes, I place the smaller details.
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| Kathleen, watercolor and gouache |
Thanks to everyone who joined the webcast and left a comment. Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see on a future webcast. Thanks to Kathleen, Cullan, and Joe for lending a hand and being such good sports.
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My next video tutorial "Portraits in the Wild" comes out June 13. It's full of moments like this.
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Joseph Crawhall (English, 1861-1913) was so demanding in his expectations of his artwork that he produced only two or three paintings a year.
He went back through his earlier paintings and destroyed most of them.
He was not a steady, industrious artist, but rather his art was the product fleeting moments of inspiration, punctuated by frustrating dry spells.
Many of his works show his enduring admiration for Japanese art.
He had a prodigious visual memory. He refined his ability to recollect complex scenes, grasping essentials with elegant simplicity, and placing in the picture only the important details.
His memory was so powerful that he could watch a coach pass by, pulled by a team of four horses, and then go home and paint an accurate picture of the entire scene.
Sometimes a memory would lodge in his mind and wait days or weeks to crystallize and demand to be painted.
Though he started his career in oil, he finished in watercolor. Many of his pictures are painted on a prepared gray-brown ground.
A
writer in his time described his painting
Piebald Driving: "He sets down with absolute directness the effect of the walking horse, with his hind legs partly obscured by the cloud of dust he himself raises; and such is the painter's facility, his absolute control over his method and his medium, that with one touch of his brush he gives us color, contour, modeling, movement, structure, and texture.
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Book:
Joseph Crawhall, 1861-1913: One of the Glasgow Boys
Studio Magazine, 1904, Volume 32Joseph Crawhall on Wikipedia.
Bio on the Tate websiteRelated post on
Cecil Aldin
Eighteenth century British landscape painter
Alexander Cozens promoted a novel technique for generating compositions. He called them "blot drawings" and their purpose was to unlock the imagination by suggesting random shapes and forms.
Cozens described a blot as a "production of chance with a small degree of design."
It wasn't a completely new idea. Chinese artists had used similar methods for centuries, and Leonardo da Vinci had suggested in his notebooks that artists might find ideas for compositions in wood grain or stains on the wall.
Cozens' student Henry Angelo, recalled that he:
"dashed out upon several pieces of paper a series of accidental smudges and blots in black, brown, and grey, which being floated on, he impressed again upon other paper, and by the exercise of his fertile imagination, and a certain degree of ingenious coaxing, converted into romantic rocks, woods, towers, steeples, cottages, rivers, fields, and waterfalls. Blue and grey blots formed the mountains, clouds, and skies'. An improvement on this plan was to splash the bottoms of earthenware plates with these blots, and to stamp impressions therefrom on sheets of damped paper."
Cozens published a description of the method in his pamphlet: "A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape" (1785-6).
Cozens' ideas later inspired the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists to develop techniques such as
automatism, where freely-created abstract designs were generated by random or unconscious processes.
Last night I attended an orchestral concert at Bard College conducted by James Bagwell. I did these sketches during the concert to try to capture Mr. Bagwell's movements.
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| James Bagwell, Conductor of "The Orchestra Now" (TŌN) at Bard College |
The players are part of an innovative training orchestra called "
The Orchestra Now" (TŌN). One of the goals of this organization is to explore new ways to engage with the audience.
For example, many of the players came out into the lobby during intermission to talk with concert-goers about the music. We talked with bassoonist Wade Coufal, who has taken his music into children's hospitals (
Here's his essay about the experience).
Another vision of the orchestra's founders is to connect music with art.
In a program called "
Sight and Sound" on December 6th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curators will talk about Louis-Léopold
Boilly's painting "The Public Viewing David’s Coronation at the Louvre," accompanied by a performance of Beethoven's
Eroica symphony.
They'll also be doing free concerts throughout the New York City boroughs.
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Official website of
The Orchestra NowThe sketch is done with
watercolor pencils
and
water brushes
in a
5x8 inch sketchbook
.
Previously on GurneyJourney:James Bagwell ConductsMaestro BagwellJames Bagwell at a Rehearsal
Previous posts on concert sketching:The "Flash-Glance" MethodGouache portrait of an Irish whistle playerSketching a vocal concert Violinist in ink washHorn PlayerMirko ListeningClub Passim GigShapewelding Sketching The Cello and the PencilConcertgoerMass in CHandel's Messiah
Late in the afternoon the donkeys wait to be let into the barn. I sit up on the fence, because otherwise
Jezebel will put her head in my lap to get attention.
At 43 years old, Jezebel is the oldest jenny. She has her own stall in the barn because she is on a special diet.
Donkeys' proportions are different from those of horses: large head and ears, small hindquarters, big long belly, and small hooves. They also have a black marking called a "cross" running perpendicular to the back and down along the withers.
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Diving Head First, watercolor on heavy watercolor paper (1/4 sheet).
fish me
fish they
pisces us
flouderers of the sea
When he was about seven, my son did a sketch of me as human on the top half, fused to a drawing table on the bottom half, as if the table and I were joined into one larger organism.
I took that as a cue to break out of the studio once in a while and play with the kids.
I'm thinking about my son's sketch when I do this little painting of an organist. I want to dissolve the boundaries between the figure and the organ until they blend together.
The parts of the scene I want to keep crisp and sharp are the forehead, the necktie and the sheet music. Everything else is
sacrificed to be darker and softer.
Since this is water media, and since I'm painting during a church service, these wet-into-wet washes are a little tricky. Can't be shuffling through the metal pencil box. I have to hold the clear and the black
water brushes in the left hand, along with a three
watercolor pencils: russet, bright red, and black, and switch them back and forth quickly while the page stays wet.
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In Salida, Colorado, we wake up early and paint in the alleys. I use a limited palette of
titanium white,
yellow ochre
,
burnt sienna
, and
Prussian blue
(also called iron blue).
I choose those pigments because they're enough to mix anything in the scene, and I am guaranteed that the overall effect will be harmonious.
Here's the same alley at sunset, facing the opposite direction, and painted with a different set of colors. This one is cadmium yellow deep, raw sienna, and brilliant purple. It's basically a complementary scheme with two values of yellow on one side and violet on the other.
Finally, here's Jeanette's sketch of the same alley earlier in the day, using transparent watercolor and a
Micron 02 pen
. "This is line and wash," she says. "I lay it in with pencil, then put in the washes, then finish it off with pen. I like having a pen to define forms with lines and dots."
Glenn Tait had a couple questions after
yesterday's post:
Would you or have you done a two page spread like this using gouache?Yes, gouache works fine for a double page spread, too. Sometimes colored pencil will rub off on a facing page, but the paint stays down pretty well. You just want to be sure the closed book doesn't get too much heavy pressure after it's finished. Painting panoramas in open spreads is a common practice among
Urban Sketchers. You can set up a special frame to make a changing home display of your open books.
What is the "open" time on the palette with casein compared to gouache?All things being equal, I believe casein stays wet or open on the palette a little longer, though I haven't done a systematic experiment. But the more important variables are: 1. Humidity, 2. Whether you're in the direct sun, and 3. Whether or not you squeeze the paint on a damp paper towel. Given those variables, gouache or casein can set up on the palette in anything from 20 minutes to three hours.
The good thing is that the texture of the paint changes as it dries from runny to thick, and that's what you need at various stages of the painting. I like to have runny, wet paint at the beginning as I'm laying in the big areas, and thicker, goopier paint for highlights and accents at the end. If I want to paint for more than a couple of hours, I just wipe off the palette and squeeze out new colors.
Sketches of the draft horses at the county fair. Gouache, watercolor, and fountain pen, 5 x 8 inches.
These horses didn't pose, even though they always had handlers, because they were getting ready for their events. That's why I kept the sketches small and started several of them in different poses.
Red Horse Dancing is a small (8" x 8") watercolor painting on paper. It was created from my imagination, and it's part of my "Daily Something" series.
More of my artwork can be seen on my
website and my
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Eggs and Shapes is a small (8" x 8") watercolor painting, from my imagination and part of my "Daily Something" series. This is one of those pieces that one is never sure if it's finished or not.
More of my artwork can be seen on my
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detail of a larger watercolor work-in-progress. I find that I have to let my work "rest" while I work on another piece. I'm pretty excited about this one, but I want it to "rest" a bit until I return to it. More of my artwork can be seen on my
website and my
Etsy shop
If you're a watercolorist or just someone who likes dappling in watercolor, and you would like to join this site and share your work, send me a link to your blog or website in a comment, and I'll add you to the site.
Sunset in Paradise, a whimsical little watercolor painting, sold a few months ago, so it found a good home. I always love that. More of my artwork can be seen on my
website and my
Etsy shop
If you're a watercolorist or just someone who likes dappling in watercolor, and you would like to join this site and share your work, send me a link to your blog or website in a comment, and I'll add you to the site.
By: Linda Kay,
on 7/28/2015
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Tiny Dancer is an ACEO or "Artist, Cards, Editions, Originals" and the only rule for them is that they're 2.5" x 3.5". ACEO's can be any medium but just need to be that size. There are lots of ACEO sites. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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By: Linda Kay,
on 7/27/2015
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I love going to dog shows, and I always take a lot of pictures. This little guy was at one of the shows I attended. I'm not sure of his breed (lost my notes), but he was so cute. Harlequin Pup is a small watercolor painting. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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Hard Winter, a watercolor painting on half sheet of watercolor paper. In this piece, I was experimenting with my own cut out shapes used as stamps (the blue horses). This piece has been in a couple of shows and received an award. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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By: Linda Kay,
on 7/25/2015
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Sometimes it's Just About the Heart is another of my whimsical heart pieces, created in watercolor on paper. This one sold to a friend, so I'm happy it has a good home. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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In This Big World of Hearts is a watercolor that shows the whimsical side of me. I really enjoy creating whimsical pieces of art, especially with hearts. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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By: Linda Kay,
on 7/23/2015
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Horse Love is painted from my reference photos after attending a horse show nearby. This sweet little girl seemed to have such a connection with her horse. The painting turned out a bit too sweet, but I enjoyed painting it. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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Mustang Holding Pen is painted from my reference photos taken at a mustang auction. It was pretty depressing to see all those beautiful horses crowded together in holding pens. Hopefully, they all went to great homes. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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This little plein air piece was done at the Jones' camp lake while meeting with a group of women artists. It's a little unfinished looking, but there's something that I like about it. More of my artwork can be seen on my
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