Tuesday, May 4, 2021

JUST PEACHY - Creative Challenge - Paint Quickly

JUST PEACHY
Watercolor - 12x22

It is always a Creative Challenge to paint quickly, especially in watercolor. For Just Peachy, I wet both sides of the paper and applied color quickly, trying to get as much of the composition in place as I could before the paper dried. I managed to place the flowers, buds, stems and a few leaves. As the top of the paper began to dry, some of the water was still trapped on the back side, keeping the paper moist enough that I could continue getting soft edges as I began to define shapes with some negative painting.

After the paper was completely dry, I continued to refine shapes, add details and finished with some calligraphy - a few twigs and stems.