I'm taking a wonderful 4-day workshop with Eric Wiegardt, AWS NWS, author of "Watercolor Free and Easy." Today was day one. We brought our own photos of boat scenes to paint from. Eric stresses that values are more important than the color in a successful painting, so we all did value sketches before beginning. Also, today's challenge was to be more free when mixing colors....to merge colors on the palette and on the paper, rather than creating a finished color to put directly on the paper. Top left is the reference photo. Top right is the value study. We all did very loose, wet-in-wet paintings on full-sheet, 21" x 31" 140# rough watercolor paper. Eric's style is loose, yet skillfully controlled. We tried to emulate. He instructed to find the pattern first of light and midtones. Think about the design of the painting. Refer often to the value study over the photo. You can't think about design when your mind is on the photo. My work today resulted in a 2-hour, approximately 70% complete painting. Most of the values and shapes are in. Some detail in the figures and shadow strengthening are yet to be finished. All-in-all a fun and informative day. Looking forward to tomorrow.
6 comments:
WOW, wonderful pieces, Diane! Looks like you are getting a lot out of the workshop.
Thanks, Ed. I enjoyed the workshop soooo much. He paints so differently from my method. I'm very detailed and controlled. It was freeing to work in a much looser style. I'm going to try to incorporate some of that looseness into my future pieces.
Diane, I know this has been up a while, but I just ran across it. What a wonderful painting! I am so impressed with what you have done here. This painting seemed to take your strong talent and really show it off! Well done!
Thanks Carol, and thanks for telling where to find this comment :-}
Would you mind telling your blog fans that Erik will be teaching at HUMMINGBIRD Studios in Southern Oregon June 6-8? The info is at http://humnew.com/EricWiegardt-09.html.
I think your wonderful painting would inspire others to want to study with him. I sure do!
Well, Leslie I think you just told everyone! :-} Thanks. Eric is a wonderful teacher. I'm happy to do anything I can to promote him.
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