White Jug Pear and Grapes
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Comment by Edith McClelland AEA UWA WCSI on March 25, 2012 at 0:14
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Hi Gina, many thanks for your comments - yes, w/col can be a tricky medium, one which we never really want to completely control. I'm passionate about rich deep colour and watercolour is definitely my favourite obsession.
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Comment by Gina Dalkin-Davis on March 24, 2012 at 16:41
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Hi Edith, this is a wonderful watercolour. The colours have such richness and depth. I really like your draped background, too. It contrasts very nicely with the white foreground. This is a difficult medium to control. You've done a very fine job. Gina.
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Comment by Nancy Sands on February 29, 2012 at 12:59
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Will do. Thanks again, Edith.
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Nancy, yes absolutely [IF you are in a hurry which I sometimes am] use a hair dryer - however, don't hold it too close to the paper [and never if you still have any masking fluid on it] and, if there's a lot of watery paint on the paper, be careful it doesn't blow all over the place.... have a go and share with us?
Happy painting - warmest regards, E.
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Thank you Edith. I can see what a wonderful and generous teacher you are. I wish I lived close enough to take your class. I'm sure I would learn a great deal. I have not tried this type of glazing, but am anxious to give it a try. Do you use a blow dryer to speed the drying time?
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Nancy, pity you don't live close by... I have just started giving watercolour classes and would love you to be part of it!
Anyway, in general, I use two methods: either soft glaze upon soft glaze [such as for "into the light"], OR, strong colour under glazing covered by strong over glazing then scrubbing out the highlights [although for the lightest lights, I will still always protect the white of the paper].
For this painting I used the under and over glaze method.... first, on dry paper, I painted in all the cool and warm tones I saw on each grape [such as aliz.crimson, cobalt blue, perm. magenta, sap green and warm reds, cad. orange and either cad.yellow or lemon yellow] - let that dry completely, then over glaze with either purples/mauves and cad.red, or, aliz.crimson and cad. red. Once that is dry, I use a small hog hair bristle brush [or any other stiff synthetic brush would do] to scrub back to EITHER the lightest I can get, or, back to the colour of the under glaze [depending whether the subject is in light or shadow]. For the pear I used the soft glaze method and just built up my layers, letting each dry between. The same goes for the white jug - I used soft layers of turquoise, cobalt blue, grey [mixed with cad. orange and turquoise, or cobalt] - just lay each new glaze gently so as not to disturb the colour already down. The backdrop [one of my scarves] was achieved by layering stronger glazes over each other and scrubbing out in between [but rather carefully so as not to scuff the paper too much].
You would still be able to get rich colour by simply glazing soft colours but it would take many more layers to achieve this - that's why the under and over glazing worked much better in this instance [I did this painting in two days and most of the time was spent "watching paint dry"]. If you were painting a delicate rose or other flower/subject, I would always go for the soft glaze method and preserve your white paper or lightest lights as you go along.
I hope this has given you some help and direction. If something needs further explained, please just ask. Try it out and let me know how you get on...
warmest regards, E
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Li - Thank you for the good advice.... I know that we get our vitamin D from exposure to sunshine, but I didn't know that it was also good for boosting the immune system! I will definitely "soak up more sunshine" in the future. Take care, happy painting and warmest regards, E
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Oh, Edith...I am sorry you are still having these problems. The good news is that you are able to continue to do something you are passionate about...something that gives you joy--painting. I admire your fortitude and positive outlook. Since you offered, I would love to know how you painted that gorgeous painting. I take a watercolor class on Fridays, but none of mine come close to your's. The paint is so strong. Did you paint right out of the tube, or did you put glaze upon glaze?
Keep painting those beautiful works as often as you possibly can.
Nancy
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Comment by Ningning Li on February 27, 2012 at 13:12
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Edith, ask your doctor whether you are ok for solar treatement. I mean get youself out your house and get some sunshine for 30minutes everyday. Because it works well on me, it can increase immune system. Ask your doctor, please. Take care of your health so you can have more energy to enjoy painting.
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Hi Nancy, Angela and Anna - your comments are all very welcome, thank you! This is the first time I've tackled fruit and, even though I knew it would be relatively easy in oils, I decided to take the challenge and do it in watercolour... and - what fun I had!
Watercolour is my favourite medium and it's been too long since I last enjoyed it. As always, when I start a watercolour, I think it's rubbish and have to fight the tendency to abandon it to the bin.... then all of a sudden things all come together. I don't know why this is but I've noticed that if a painting is 'pleasing' from the start, it never turns out the way I want it to!!
Yes Nancy, I'm well recovered from the operation thanks! After the lengthy illness my immune system is low, so I'm now on yet another round of antibiotics for throat, chest and eye infection - won't stop me painting though and it's so good to not have to worry about what I eat! I never usually mention it but I have Fibromyalgia, CFS and various other forms of arthritis and so I can't really paint when I want to... but painting is really my life!
Anyway, enough about me - if anyone has any questions about any of the techniques used in this painting, please DO feel free to ask......
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