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October 28, 2008 at 4:10 pm
sworth
Lovely bark – it must be a good sized hawthorn. I notice you’ve made notes about the colours – you must have a very good colour memory if you finished this painting from your notes. I’ve never tried this and what I don’t finish at a sitting just doesn’t get finished, which can be a bit limiting. I’ll have to give your technique a try.
October 29, 2008 at 10:19 pm
vivienmr
Well, no, I didn’t finish this from colour notes, I just find it’s helpful sometimes to note where the colours come in as I’m drawing, before I start painting. Otherwise I find I’ve put a colour in the wrong place and the chance for the right colour is lost. ( Does this make sense?) That’s what I find difficult with watercolour, it is unforgiving of mistakes. I think the writing shouldn’t show through, though!
October 30, 2008 at 8:09 am
sworth
Notes only show on maximum magnification when the image is loading in my browser. I know what you mean about watercolour being unforgiving, but I just cheat and think Oh well, no one else knows that colour’s in the wrong place!
October 30, 2008 at 5:53 pm
davidworth
Maybe god wrote yellow on the leaf so that in autumn it would remember to change to the right colour. This is a bit of a masterpiece. The bark is brilliant and the colours and tones very realistic. I will send you an article sue sent me about colours in nature because it has bearing on your picture. I don’t know if it was deliberate but you have captured a feeling of a light filtering through the yellow leaves and changing the colour of the trunk.
November 5, 2008 at 9:34 am
suemiddlesex
Everybody’s said what I was going to say along the lines of this is more than good and I like the bark very very much