Thursday, July 28, 2011

Joyful effort




My painting has been in fits and starts lately and I've attained some books on watercolors that are both inspiring and intimidating. Life is full of ups and downs: painting isn't any different. So, the stand of trees is a simple experiment from Nancy Tichborne's book and the leaves in a circle are a piece that's suffered from overwork, but I'm using it to practice and make my mistakes trying to get shadows to work.
I love Nancy's work and she says she's a tonal painter. She says thats what makes her paintings lifelike. That certainly isn't my strength, but I'm slowly learning some things from her.

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