The latest watercolor is kind of unique one in that the foreground actually frames a couple of people in the buffet restaurant on the Norwegian cruise ship Star as it made port in Mazatlan, Mexico. The vision through the window is of a jungle oriented big city. You can peer through the window just as the people are doing, and see the big buildings on the ridge as they look out across the ocean. One person is contemplating the port, while the other is cleaning the tables.
A peak into the progress of this painting is available through Flickr posted on the left side of this blog.
The two main thoughts that my watercolor teacher had on the previous painting, the pv photographer is that the painting did not have enough contrast in it. She said that she would have like to see the images overlap to draw in some unity. This painting (the Mazatlan port) certainly is not lacking in visual contrast.
There is a touch or two of what I have been learning from the Don Andrews DVD set. A major idea of his is that the artist does not have to tell the whole story in the painting if it is not the major focus. He also is a major supporter of "granulation" which is mixing of colors wet on wet on the paper.. moving from light values to mid values to just a few dark values to set off the whites in the paper. He dose not use masking but rather the wet/dry content of the paper will allow the colors to run together when they are wet and stop abruptly when the washes hit the dry paper.
He is a painter from Mobile Alabama. He uses nothing but big wash brushes and big round brushes. He draws in the whites first and the other parts of the paintings he brushes "though the lines to get he right value for a glaze that further defines the subject matter. Pretty cool stuff.
: ) Pat
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