late-night practicing with w/c

[Ruth]

(we need a bleary-eyed icon)
I was so excited, I stayed up late painting anything I could find. These two turned out best.
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[This message has been edited by Ruth (edited November 27, 2000).]

[Connor]

very nice work.

i just hope you done A LOT of watercolor in the past - otherwise, i think i'll have my coach "throw in the brush". <he says jealously...>

thanks for posting it.

[Phyllis Rennie]

Nice, Ruth. I can't even do that well while wide awake! LOL.

[nancymae]

Nice work Ruth!! I like your shadowing on the brush jar....also your highlights on the tea pot are great!! It really looks like glass!!! Great work for a night owl!!!

I think I may have the same little jar that you are using for your brushes...did you get it through Winsor Newton?????

Nancy

[ReNae]

Hey Ruth, may I borrow some of those extra brushes you aren't using there?? I mean after all, they are just sitting in that vase!

Great job, btw.

Warmth,
ReNae

[animal]

Ruth,
I like the highlights on the teapot and also like the brushes in the pot, Great Job!

[ameliajordan]

Very nice - and half asleep also!! Now how about a composition using the pot and brush jar and ... who know's what. It's so much fun to get so excited about what you're painting that you can't wait to finish tomorrow - enjoy

[LDianeJohnson]

Ruth,
Just came across your two pieces. What a nice freshness...you're enthusiasm really came through. The brush piece dances. Next time you paint, try to capture that same excitement again. It is great that you zoomed-in and concentrated on a single subject. You had plenty of variation and complexity with the brush piece alone to work with.

When setting up your still-life continue to paint a single subject, and vary one element, the background for instance. See how the shadows operate and when the shadow intersects the subject. Play with the light, high to low, left to right, pulling in and out with the light source, etc., to see what happens to the subject.

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Paintings by L. Diane Johnson
Workshops for 2001

[sassybird]

I agree about the bleary eyed icon......lol
I also have a jar of ratty brushes I can't bear to part with. Many I have had for 30 yrs or more, but then some of my finer brushes I have had for that long too.
You did a good job on these too pieces. I like the highlights you achieved on the teapot, and the shadows on the piece with the can of brushes. You also did a good job in painting the brushes. Sometimes our most harried work is our best when it holds feeling, is real and not contrived.

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sass

PS Maybe we can take jnets eye icon as a model and make a droopy sleep eye for all the all night painters at wc

[This message has been edited by sassybird (edited December 27, 2000).]

[Ruth]

Y'all are so nice! Thank you! That is a Winsor-Newton jar, and those are my old ratty brushes that always come in handy for texture or scrubbing or something...can't bear to throw them out.

I really appreciate the help and encouragement here. Thanks to everyone.

Ruth