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Thank you Maureen and you are most welcome. ❤️
Just don’t want to lose all of you.
Let us keep going and keep being active.Thank you everyone let’s continue with October’s PPP.
LIL, I really love your fresh, colorful version.
I wish I could comment on all of them
This is very late, and quite a disappointment. It would have been better to leave the BG white, but the flower still does not look very good. My ref photo printed out a lot darker than the image on my screen. I wanted to get varied values and tones of the violet, but so much of it looked the same on the reference. This is an 11 x 8 watercolor on Hahnemühle Agave paper, which is very soft and tears easily. At least I tried.
Joy
C & C encouraged!Joy, I admire this one and am sure you learned a lot during this process
Now you could either add darker, more red violet to a few of the petals to punch it up and/or do another darker greenish black? to the bg. In other words most of it is middle value. So you can add darks. If that makes any sense.Kay
Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary
Here is my effort with making it darker, mixing ivory black with pthalo green. Although one is not “supposed’ to use black, I find if evenly applied, it can make a good BG, as it did in a recent portrait in the WC challenge. I also added a glaze of quin rose to some areas. I still rarely leave enough white paper, as often it looks unnatural to me compared to the ref. I must strive to be more creative.
Joy
C & C encouraged!Much better
You could also use the red-purple mix along with thalo green in your bg for a cohesive painting.
Kay
Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary
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