Watercolour is a great medium to splash around with and have fun trying new techniques out! This is a spin off of some of my acrylic approaches using a gessoed masonite board, then applying molding paste with a palette knife. I let this dry completely. Once this was dry, I splashed on Watercolours – indanthrone, quinacridone […]
Acrylics with impasto and gel mediums create superb contrasts of rough and smooth, peaks and valleys that I find quite beautiful and useful in many landscape and abstract paintings. This type of texture works great for tree bark, building walls, hills, ocean waves, even certain flowers lend well to this approach. I mixed the acrylics […]
A few weeks ago I posted Good News about Epic Art Failures filled with several exuberant images that were not yet resolved. I had a bit of a think and reassessed the mountain created with watercolours using a palette knife. I determined that the perimeters needed quite a bit of softening, which was done very […]
Love this simple way to do palette knife trees in watercolours. Beginners will too! Dampen the paper where the trunk will be, then just glide the knife into the dampness. Change knives to add a different colour into the trunk, let it run a bit and use a finger to smudge and merge the colours […]
The lovely calming colours of the ocean in this acrylic and palette knife painting created just the right ambience! Acrylics colours used were cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, cobalt teal, buff mixed with burnt sienna. This was very enjoyable to paint, Great Fun! I focused on textural effects with the knife, trying to lead the eye […]
Art inspired by the many faces of the ocean – vibrant tropical coral reefs, tide pools, windswept sea surface and sailing- these images convey just a few of the many moods that the sea has to offer. The Ocean, in all its diversity provides me a rich and unlimited source of creative inspiration. In yesterday’s […]
The Good News is there’s a lot to be gained by yesterday’s art wreckages. This morning I reviewed my ‘artistic overflow of enthusiasm’ i.e. experiments that look pretty horrible. I came up with a plan and 6 ways these less than ideal images can be of use to me. I’m quite determined to salvage […]
Viridian, Ultramarine, Permanent Rose and Indian Yellow watercolours and acrylic paints. Viridian and Permanent Rose are complements; Ultramarine blue and Indian yellow are near complements and they pair up harmoniously, whether in watercolours, acrylics or oils and are in my palette for both of the paintings shown. First painting “Bird of Paradise” is a representational […]
Cobalt blue, Indigo, Cobalt teal colour combination using oils with media text and seasons greetings: joyful holiday wishes for all.