I've started taking a watercolor class at the Ann Arbor Art Center on Wednesday evenings to help me get back into painting. Becoming practiced at this medium has been a decade-long endeavor for me. At my peak, I produced two abstract paintings recently framed and hung in a Faculty and Staff art show on Campus. Sadly, my skills atrophied. But no more...
The first night of class I realized that I'm extremely rusty. The second class things started to click again. I promise to show my own work in future posts because today, I wanted to show this small detail of a painting by Paul, also taking the class with me. I especially love three things about this work; the negative space of white to make the details pop, the complementary color usage of orange and blue - both working to make each other more vivid and the feathery details of wet-on-wet and salt techniques. What do you guess is the subject of this painting? A butterfly. Thanks Paul! - l.o.d.
The first night of class I realized that I'm extremely rusty. The second class things started to click again. I promise to show my own work in future posts because today, I wanted to show this small detail of a painting by Paul, also taking the class with me. I especially love three things about this work; the negative space of white to make the details pop, the complementary color usage of orange and blue - both working to make each other more vivid and the feathery details of wet-on-wet and salt techniques. What do you guess is the subject of this painting? A butterfly. Thanks Paul! - l.o.d.
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