Monday, July 6, 2009

Green Horse Statue



More watercolor practice. Experimenting with watercolors *without* laying down black ink lines. It feels so strange.

I painted just the shadows in purple and was going to leave it at that. Then I got the bright idea to wash it over with patina green. It looked too cold, so then I washed it over with Raw Sienna. Thought it looked pretty good. Well maybe it looks OK. Finally darkened up the deepest shadows a bit to make them pop.

Meh, the jury's still out.

Hubby says it looks like a braying donkey.

Sigh.

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Photo credits:
Charmaine Swart, photographer
Morguefile.com

1 comment:

Alex said...

I love it! It's such good experiment and the result says it all, because it's really good :)