I’m not a great fan of watercolour, always found them a bit wishy washy and I’ve never felt that confident using them either, too delicate I suppose. I’ve used them for rough sketching and playing about but nothing much else. However, I recently discovered a great book, Art Escapes by Dory Kanter an American watercolorist and I’m inspired! Here’s Dory’s website to have a look at her work. http://www.artworldtours.com/
Artistic Journals
The book is about keeping an artistic journal, and in it there are some lovely ideas and really great exercises to do as part of a process of doing something creative every day. Which is my latest thing by the way, being creative every day – but more on that in my next post.
Derbyshire Open Arts
What I’ve found most useful is her ideas on working with triads of colour. Now, I tend to work with a limited palette anyway, but her approach was new and I’ve been having great fun. I’ve started with some little water colour paintings that I’ve made into cards, (they will be on sale at Derbyshire Open Arts this weekend) and I’m feeling like they will lead on to bigger things; maybe some larger watercolours. I’m also really excited about how I might take this idea of working with triads and use the principle with oils and acrylic, now that could be really interesting.
And here’s a couple of examples. Great fun.
