WDE May 25, Waterlilly

[halthepainter]

My two hour mark on a highly cropped waterlilly. Alas as I started, I thought I had the flower in the bottom right hand quadrant but somehow it wound centered vertically on the right side. Alas my bad.



11 by 14 inch, Gouache on 140# watercolor paper.

I took some liberties with the reference photo. (as always)

Suggestions for improvement welcome.

[Phlugel]

thanks for the progression I always love those.
Like the light edges to the leaves and the flower has great shading

[halthepainter]

OOPS, I forgot to add WDE to the title.

Thanks Astrid.

[KreativeK]

Hal, these luscious shapes are spectacular so full of color and light, then the white lotus blossom just sets the lilypads off perfectly.

[Cindy234]

Nice colors, good water on the leaves.

[Leya Lakshmanan]

I love your crop and shading on the flower!well done!

[jlloren]

Very nice crop. I love the different shades of green!

[RubyRedDog2]

Hal, these are beautiful. Great job on the leaves and Kay is right the flower sets them off perfectly. Thank you for participating.

Gail

[Signchick]

You did a beautiful job with this reference!! It's a hard one!

[eyepaint]

So this was the other way around from "now you see it, now you don't"

[halthepainter]

I'll be brief, I'm working on a backup computer in an inconvient location. My main is down again with the same symptons that required me to take it to the shop two weeks ago.

Kay. Leya, Joel, EP, Beth, thank you.

Yes Cindy I had trouble getting my water on the leaves to read as water. I hope your comment means I succeeded.

Thank you Gail and Thank you for the great Refs.

[Paulafv]

I like this. Great depth of water, good leaves with nicely painted edges and a lovely flower. It doesn't bother me that its on the edge (water lilies seem to drift where they want to go )

Well done.

[Deano]

I like the interlocking shapes of the pads and the water! A fine crop, Hal!

[artastic]

great light on the leaves , nicely done

[halthepainter]

Thank you Bonnie, Deano and Paula.