#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 18-19 Clouds and Color Splashes

I worked on two paintings on Sketch paper today for #WorldWatercolorMonth. Thank goodness for the prompts, or I would be out of ideas. Clouds of course are the favorite of almost every painter that does outdoor scenes. We've had enough rain this year, in Chicagoland---it rained so much yesterday, I really didn't have enough light to paint.

So today I started, immediately too involved to take pictures.

Day 18 Clouds

This is pretty straight forward. Lots of paper spritzing and a huge mop brush carrying the colors for the clouds-I tilted the board up, down sideways, paper toweled away huge drips. I Let the sky dry and did the same for the trees/bushes.

Palette 

Prussian Blue

Thalo Purple

Lamp Black

Van Dyke Brown.

Cerulean blue 

Lemon Yellow

Cadmium Yellow Deep

Hookers Green

Yellow Green

and a bit of yellows in the clouds/sky very lightly for light, spritzed with water and wiped to give streaks. 

I walked away from this early on---

Day 19 Color Splashes

Honest this started with splashes, but feeling compulsed to give the splashes some context, I started loosely painting with a smaller brush to give things some definition. This is a loose interpretation of my kitchen corner cabinet, which is full of Delft, Flow Blue, and antique plates and crockery.. 

The three splashes in the middle shelf are little Dutch figures of my grandmother's. The flowers in pots are dried flowers from bouquets given to me by family members. 

I had to walk away from this, before ALL the splashes disappeared. Definitely a challenge.

Palette

Carmine

VanDyke Brown

Burnt Sienna

Cobalt

Prussian Blue

Cerulean Blue

Cadmium Yellow Deep

Yellow Green

Hookers Green

These exercises are great learning tools. 

I'm hoping that at the end of the month, my painter's brain will be revived, and I can sit down and do some larger paintings.

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