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| Panama Rose Watercolor Demonstration ~ SOLD 11"x15" watercolor paper © 2012 Barbara Parish |
Soft
folds, crisp ruffled edges.
Color
intense to tone.
Values
light to dark.
All on a
stem with thorns.
Can you
guess what I am talking about? Yes!
ROSES.
Roses are
one of the most beautiful flowers, yet a new painter has a hard time with all
the edges and close action of the petals.
Here
comes the word SIMPLIFY. Ask yourself what
does SIMPLIFY mean to you? I look at the
word simplify and think of less, fewer, selected. My job of creating a painting is to grab the
essence of my subject, not to report every edge and line I see. Got it?
The rose side view painted with fewer petals, hard edges, with lost edges on the leaves.
The rose side view painted with fewer petals, hard edges, with lost edges on the leaves.
Another technique, I start painting a rose in the center with a dash stroke, and then with the chiseled edge of a flat brush I carve one small line after another, each overlapping in a continuous swirl. After three layers of swirl I rinse my brush, tap my paper towel to absorb some water from the brush, go back to the rose and touch some edges to release the line. Now I have lost edges and hard edges. Try it!
This
technique can be used in all your paintings to create a painterly look.
Join me for a live
demonstration August 18th, Big Bear Lake One-Day Watercolor
Workshop.
To Register: click Barbara Parish
To Register: click Barbara Parish
