Morning Mist Part Two- a digital watercolour in progress

 

 

I ended up yesterday with a 'tonal painting?' (Is that the right term??) It looks kind of boring at this point. There just isn't anything about it that really grabs me! It seemed like doing a technical exercise and not too much feeling got into it. Maybe I'm the only one that knows that because I painted it, but I have to trust my gut feeling that this lacks feeling! Unfinished in many ways! Still workable? Not sure, but I will take a stab at it if you care to follow along and watch me fall on my face again! lol!

 

First illustration today is the boats. The values were not consistent. I used a sepia mixture with the Wet Blender (still on the layer under Preseve Transparency). The Wet Blender (John Derry's Watercolour Brushes) helps give it a wet uneven amount of paint applied look. As if you had quite a bit of water and paint on your brush and sort of moved it around to leave more paint deposited in some areas than others. It shows up better in larger resolutions.

Looks like too much grey underneath...hmmm! Lets try changing the grey too.

 

 

 

 Morning Mist WIP No. 1

 

 

Morning Mist WIP No. 2

 

I looked at Japanese and Chinese Landscape paintings on the web and...the conclusion is that mine ain't like them. I think going with the greenish olive wash helps because that's the colour of a lot of them (maybe it's my monitor hah! hah!) I have seen quite a few at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. They looked sort of faded brownish too, but's that's going a bit too far! Now the problem is that the mountains don't look Japanese or Chinese (yesterday this was a loch, so they were Scottish mountains, that are more rounded and rolling - not all of them of course). They do look distant, but they also look very boring! Shall I go for it and delete them??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is getting to be a "everything but the kitchen sink" kind of painting! Oh well, that's what experimenting is all about!

Gotta go do some 'real' work now....see you later!

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