Watercolor sketchbook fun while learning to create in public and plein air
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@Rich-Green Wow the Chicago piece is really beautiful. Lovely colors, composition and blending...you can really see you are getting more and more comfortable with the medium. I love the flowers in the foreground and how you handle the color on the cab! Love that you are doing plein air studies...that is my goal too now that I have portable pans. Which one are you using? Mine is the Koi Watercolor Pocket Field Sketch Box with 24 pans.
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Wow thanks for sharing your artistic journey with watercolours with us Rich! These are really super pieces - like your followers I also really like the blue one with the modern glass - I like the way the rain and the blues echo the glass of the building...and also the Chicago one, beautiful bold colours.. and the bright reds and contrast work nicely with the inked outlines, it's got a nice feel to it. But they are all great and I also really enjoy the textures of the brown in the fountain reflection.
Love the print onto glass too! Perhaps you could make a set of glass coasters?
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@Charlie-Eve-Ryan First of all thank you so much! Yes I would highly recommend getting outside and really taking in how the light and colors really look. And then try to capture them or your creative variation of them in your own colors - its really so amazing how different it is than sitting inside looking at a reference photo. Plus life happens in the process (clouds change the sunlight, or people come and go and so on) and it really makes you work in a whole new way. I found it very fun.
The little travel kit I have is just a 12 pan Winsor & Newton kit. I really like working with it and keeping myself limited on the color palette - as I tend to go overboard with colors anyway and when I have access to all of them in Photoshop I have been known to use a few too many of them
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@Dulcie Thank you very much! I really enjoyed reading what it was you responded positively to in the various pieces. Nice to get the opinion of what stands out to other artists and why!
Yes I really do need to pursue the art glass options again - I do feel like it would make for a unique offering at an art/craft fair - as I have not seen anything similar being offered. Hmmm
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I agree: the Chicago piece is gorgeous. Every centimeter is interesting. Wonderful color scheme, very appealing abstraction... Sold!
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@sergio Wow! Thank you so much Sergio! Seriously - this feedback is so kind and just incredible. I am humbled right now - thank you again.
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@Rich-Green Really cool work! I too like the Chicago piece. So vibrant!
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@Rob-Smith Thanks Rob - that is a high compliment coming from you - as you have such a wonderful way with watercolors! Really appreciate it!
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This is great! Loved seeing the progression. I hope you continue!
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Very nice! I've been trying to do more outdoor sketching/watercolor lately and it is so much fun. The blue and brown mixing sounds interesting... will have to try! I also really like the painting with the tulips, it just flows well.
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@Steff and @shinjifujioka thank you both so much!
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Love your Chicago piece- thank you for sharing!
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@lmrush Thank you so much for the nice compliment! I really appreciate it!
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@Rich-Green great stuff Rich, proud of you, you are so dermined to improve, I love it!
