Blue Crab Special watercolor 24"x18"
This painting is from about fifteen years ago when I learned to paint wet on wet and also to bring abstraction to a painting. Jan Ledbetter whose class I was attending then, in preparation for a workshop 'Watermedia Encounter' by Doug Walton, gave us her version of a set of steps of his style of painting. Doug Walton was a student of the renowned watercolor painter Ed Whitney and he passed on some of Whitney's wisdom. The one I remember the most: Any teacher can teach how to begin a painting but you have to be the one to finish it. Some other things that stayed with me from that time are : to let go and not be afraid of drawing and painting instinctively, having dark darks and white whites in a painting, touch a point optimally once and no more than 3 times, paint shapes, have big readable nouns and most importantly you don't have to paint or fix everything!
10 comments:
Great Blue crab and wonderful words of wisdom. Unfortunately I am always trying to fix everthing. (At least everything that I can.)
I realy like the light colours in here. Very beach. The blue hues are a cool look for a crab!
Thank you Kathy! Unfortunately, I usually try to fix a mistake and make it more glaring!
Thanks Melanie! The blue was the easy part --it was the background that gave me a huge headache for months!!!!
This is a great painting meera! I love the design of it :) And good old Mr. Whitney, I still think about his Pappa bear, Mama bear, and baby bear shapes I read about in his book :)
Thanks Crystal! apparently once Ed Whitney put a big tissue napkin on his head, a medium one on his ear and a little piece hanging off his nostril during a demonstration to make a point about Papa, mama and Baby bear shapes :)
The crab and the hidden numbers ...are all great with blue..
Thanks Anudeepa! And you even found the hidden numbers :)
wonderful!! the post.. and the blue crab!!
Thanks patricia!!!
Thanks you Prabha --the challenge is to apply it while sketching and painting.
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