I have a small file cabinet where I keep my watercolors organized. Looking through it the other day, I discovered an incomplete watercolor landscape of red poppies from 5 years ago that I filed away:
I liked what I started, but it just needed some extra work to make it complete. To improve it, I softened the hard edge where the poppy field meets the sky:
I added the rest of the poppies.
When I didn’t see anything else to change, I signed it using a dip pen loaded with the same turquoise colored paint I used to paint the poppy stems.
I like signing my watercolors with watercolor paint now instead of using a sketching pencil because the pencil always seemed a little out of place.
To flatten the watercolor painting, I tried to take a shortcut by steam ironing it. It flattened it, but it was warped at the edges so I ended up having to flatten it the traditional way with the board and gummed paper tape which worked very well!
Since I stink at painting in a straight line, the borders of the watercolor were pretty skewed. I used the poppy field horizon line as an anchor to level the painting and then drew guidelines to trim the painting down so that it can easily be framed in the future:
The finished watercolor which is now listed on Etsy:
Painted using Windsor blue, permanent rose, cadmium yellow and burnt sienna on 140 pound coldpressed paper.
I read this article long before, but forgot to comment(^^;;
Have a nice weekend゚+.゚(b*´▽`)b゚+
Thank you, Nika ^^. I hope you are having a great weekend too :)
Hey Jasmine, I wasn’t sure how to contact you but it seems like you are still active on here so I’ll give it a shot. My name is Brendan and I have my own photography business and was trying to look at art to add to a document I am writing up and I came across this painting you did in ’09 http://photo.foter.com/photos/pi/275/three-koi-by-jasmine-ray-something-like-this-on-the-right-batik-fabric-embroider-fish-maybe-salmon-1.jpg
I was wondering if you would mind if I used it or not? Being a fellow artist I know I would hate to post something and not get credit for it. Hopefully you get this message and respond. Thank you.
Hi Brendan! Sure, that would be fine with me and I would be honored if you used the koi artwork for your document. Thank you for asking by the way :)