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Comment by Christine Lewis on January 27, 2016 at 10:08

Aurelia, you have a lovely style with your watercolors. Definitely looks like you are enjoying painting them. They are very nice!

Comment by Aurelia Sieberhagen on January 25, 2016 at 19:03

Thank you Silvana.  I am having an exhibition in March, so I better get into the mood for painting.  I also rather prefer to be outside as it is summer here and I am planning a herb garden and making lavender cuttings for my bees.  I have two owl chicks with there parents outside my house as well.  Think I must go and paint outside rather ...

Comment by Silvana M Albano on January 24, 2016 at 5:24

:) !!! Like the painting and the comments!

I think paintings should be enjoyed... If I don't feel like painting I don't... And now I don't... I like to look at other paintings though...  sometimes I think that that lack of not wanting to do sth is my body and brain telling me to stop so it can process...who knows what.... but I try to listen to it.... I am a lot outside these days, just letting nature to get into me.... and enjoying the trees as I li on a hammock and seeing their leaves swaying, and birds coming and going...it's magical in its own way...

Comment by Jon Main on January 24, 2016 at 3:48

Good comments - I don't feel like painting either!

Comment by Jessica Futerman on January 24, 2016 at 3:26

A very charming scene, so simple & delicate!

Comment by Aurelia Sieberhagen on January 23, 2016 at 20:42

Thank you Michael.  I am actually not in a mood for painting these days (don't know why), but they say if you don't use it you loose it, so I have to come up with something to get going and I find the watercolour much more relaxing than oils.  I don't have to think about form and direction of brushstrokes, and lot of other stuff.  Watercolour make interesting marks as well as the paint flows into one another.

No, I didn't plan anything.  I think after many paintings you start to develop a good eye for what might work in a composition although I still make booboos, but just less of it.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on January 23, 2016 at 11:25

Very nice Aurelia!!    I see a lot of VAA lessons going on here.  Great notan and composition with the unequal masses.  Very good rhythms being set up by the pylons, seagulls, and negative shapes within the large mass.  So.... great far visual music and near music .. and  poetry of mood.  I like how you created the large amount of passive area to counter balance the active area of the large mass!  .... The boat creates a nice transition from the active to passive .... did you think of it that way when you planned this?  ..nice job!!!