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Comment by Jennifer Beaudet Zondervan on September 20, 2013 at 6:04

Beautiful sky and light on the ground!

Comment by Roena King on December 16, 2010 at 19:33

Thank you very much Remegio for your encouraging comment.  Much apprecited.  Ro

Comment by Remegio Onia on December 16, 2010 at 18:20

This is amazingly beautiful! I like it! The play of contrast between the grass/ field and the barn is perfect! Also the sky is very well done!

Comment by Roena King on October 17, 2010 at 4:10

Lyndia, you said the magic word.....color/colours. he he I am glad you enjoyed it. Ro

Comment by Lyndia Crawford on October 16, 2010 at 20:40

This is really beautiful, love the colours.

Comment by Holly Pilgrim on October 16, 2010 at 8:38

I have used salt and alcohol, along with heavy gel in a painting I was just playing with, to see what effects I could get. I put a lot of gloss on it, and hung it in the library and someone actually BOUGHT it... I was so surprised...:-)
Thanks for the website tip - I am going there now...
Holly

Comment by Roena King on October 16, 2010 at 7:50

Holly, so glad you liked the painting. This is not "true" WC as it is mixed with gouache. See the comment I made on Oct 11 back to Shahrin to explain this process. /// Holly, if you want to give WC a try I can give you a few tips to get you started as it "is not hard at all". Get a big brush and brush water all over the entire canvas/paper. Start to let it air dry watching until "just when the wet glisten goes away", then put in all the colors you want to be soft (like the sky or the background). Let the paper completely dry......in a hurry use a hair dryer. Now you can paint on the dry paper and be in total control of what you put down. You can soften the edges of things with a clean brush dipped in water and part dried off on a paper towel. Just knowing those 2 tricks will get you going a long way. NOW, start looking at other's WC paintings. You can see when you think the paper was wet and when the paper was dry and they were in complete control. If you want to do only the sky and not any of that color on the ground......wet only the sky. You will find that the color will not go at all into the dry paper. Mess around with tilting the paper at different angles and see what happens. //// http://community.how-to-draw-and-paint.com/ go here and look on the right side of the page....you are looking for the FREE e-book called Water Color Secretes. I have downloaded this book and found it to be very good. //// My 2 cents worth is that in WC I thought it was easier to do close up of things rather than a landscape. But that was just my opinion. WC is NOT hard. Give it a try. WC is crazy fun too........go look at my Indian pot with the indian shoes. The background was wet and I sprinkled some salt on it. Cool huh! Ro PS you can use your acrylic thinned down and get a sorta water color effect. OH, I heard of using acrylic and sprinkling rubbing alcohol on it for a cool effect.

Comment by Holly Pilgrim on October 16, 2010 at 7:20

Absolutely LOVE this... I don't know how you get the stars to work, but I give it five! I have painted in oil and acrylic, but never had the nerve to go to watercolor. There's a wonderful watercolorist in my town, but she charges MONEY for lessons :-) and I never have any to spare....

Comment by Roena King on October 11, 2010 at 12:32

These are old farm houses that are all make believe for my painting. I have not painted in WC in years, but I checked my supplies and I found a tube of white - Da Vinchi Gouache - opaque water color. I would squirt out "fresh" pile of gouache on a piece of glass in my palette (so that I could lift it out and it would be easy to clean). I used my normal WC colors and mixed them with the gouache. White is the only color of gouache needed. I painted on 1/4" illistration board. The process is not forgiving and what you put on is pretty much it. Not like you can go back and keep adding - only just a little. If a drop of water gets dropped on the canvas after the gouache has dried, it disolves the paint leaving a circle that is all but imposible to repair. Care needs to be taken by not moving the brush across the top of the canvas (fearing a drop will drop off and land right in the middle where you dont want it and can not fix it). If you want to try it, start small and work up to the larger canvases because it is a wet in wet technique and you must move fast. For a sky such as this, I put a wash of blue over the sky, then dipped into the fresh gouache on the corner of a 1 inch flat WC brush, and started putting in the clouds. Keep dipping into the gouache. The clouds just make them selves and look amazing. Really easy when you get the hang of it. You "think" like you do in oils because you can paint on top of what is dry. i.e. I painted the entire background and then you could paint the house on top because it is now opaque paint. //// Since you are using professional quality gouache, I would think it would be light fast. I saw this painting last December at my brother's home, and I did not notice any fading that I could tell. /// I believe I have put several paintings done in Gouache and WC in my gallery. /// One day I hope to give this method another try. It was really easy to paint pretty paintings I thought. Ro

Comment by M Shahrin Shaari on October 11, 2010 at 11:59

Is this similar to my kampung houses?..haha. What brand were those guoaches did you use? are they faded through time?..calm scene.

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