Flag Hill Summer ( Sunol RW) 14 x 21 watercolor
In July I spent a great Saturday with artists from the California Art Club at the Sunol Regional Wilderness. A nice breeze in the morning and a warm afternoon. Flag Hill caught my eye. It had interesting rocks exposing the ridge structure underneath.
I thought a lot about the sky value in this one, the convention is to make the sky pale at the horizon, but when looking up at a ridge against the middle of the sky you do get the sense that the blue in the sky is a darker value than the gold on the hills. I pushed this as dark as I dared, I've ruined paintings in the past using french ultramarine to push the sky too dark.
I have a new favorite blue, which I purchased only because regular cobalt blue was out of stock, cobalt blue deep, which has a lot more strength as a mixer than regular cobalt.
Robin Purcell AWS,NWS,MCWA Signatures. California Art Club Artist. Signature Artist Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. American Impressionists Society Signature Member California watercolor landscape painter. Plein Air and Studio Works. all images copyright the artist
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
International perspective on watercolor
I have been enjoying a blog dedicated to watercolor in French thanks to Google translate. It has a wide perspective on watercolor. The author has kindly included a link to my blog under the heading " mes coups de coeur" or his favorites. Which given the quality of the art posted is pretty amazing,
I feel like this is one of those connections that would never happen without the internet .
Here is a link to the blog:
http://masmoulin.blog.lemonde.fr/
Visit and enjoy!
I feel like this is one of those connections that would never happen without the internet .
Here is a link to the blog:
http://masmoulin.blog.lemonde.fr/
Visit and enjoy!