I don’t think the flash on my cracked mobile phone likes my watercolour paintings. Or maybe it’s my computer screen, which seems to enhance every flaw in the painting as it displays it at 500% magnification. Although maybe, it may be my slightly less than perfect eyesight which tricks me into believing that the watercolour looks done, when it well and truly isn’t.
Having only an hour to paint these, though, it’s hardly surprising they’re rushed and unfinished, but, and this is a big but, practice makes perfect. If I can paint a spectacular watercolour in an hour, I’ll be happy. If I can paint a spectacular watercolour in an hour I’ll also be a miracle worker, but we’ll not go there. Not this time.
The alternative title to this watercolour was going to be ‘boulders by the shore’ but it didn’t garner the kind of image I was going for.
All that said, I had great fun once again creating this picture for #WorldWatercolorMonth. It really is a splendid way to spend an hour, regardless of the end result!
And by my reckoning, that makes it seven out of seven. I’m doing fabulous!
Tom
Great one TL….I can see a vast improvement in your work. Between the details and shadows and life like qualities you are moving ahead in more depth…Keep at it. You are cultivating great discipline. Happy weekend…VK 🙂
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Thanks, VK. I enjoyed painting this one, and watching it all come together.
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You are on it. I’ve always been told…more contrast…I’ve also never gotten it.
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It’s finding that right balance, Beverly. Sometimes I find it, and other times it is nowhere to be seen! 😀
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I so wish I had a fraction of your talent with a paint brush! I take an hour to paint a sign and you create this!?!?!?!
You never fail to impress.
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Aw, thank you, Miss D!
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Well I think it’s lovely 😊
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Thank you for thinking that, Elaine! 😀
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Beautiful, Tom. You get better and better.
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Thanks, Eugenia. I keep trying (when I keep trying, that is! 😉 )
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It’s a great achievement to turn out a watercolour in an hour! I have to poke at mine for much longer; and when I come back to look at them the next day with a fresh eye, I have to poke at them some more. Maybe when I’ve done as many as you have, I’ll get faster!
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I just paint them and don’t overthink them, Diane. And with an hour I don’t even have time to underthink anything as well!!!
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