I spent a few days in Cabo San Lucas with family over spring break. I didn't bring my pastels, as I was intending to sit under an umbrella on the beach and read. However, just in case of boredom setting in, I took some watercolors with me and a small
(5.5 x 8.5") sketchbook. These were all done sitting on the beach, and turning in different directions, sometimes with a margarita nearby. I'll not blame the beverage for the results, though. While I enjoyed painting as a focused diversion, the realities of lack of brush control, and color mixing, set in. It was a struggle, but I still had fun. Here's a few pages, and pieces from that trip. It is humbling to realize how hard it is to control watercolors.
I'll be in a group show up in Napa at the end of May, and I'll be posting some pastels I've done for that show soon.
7 comments:
Bill,
For Quickies, these water color are amazing especially how the colors are mixed in. Please let me know when the Napa group will be happening. I will try to make the show.
Br,
Charles
beautiful Bill!
You say you struggled but it does NOT look like you did! Not fair!! :)
I love the simplicity of it. You still captured the "light" just like you would have with pastel.
Amazing..
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dice..
didn't recognize my account...
dice
that second page bottom one is nice!! really like how these turned out! Looking forward to those pastels!
Beautiful quick studies, I really like the simple compositions on the second page, great stuff!
Great work Bill! Do some more watercolors!
Thanks all for the comments. I was inspired by Dice, as well as some of the other online blogger's work...
Nathan Fowlkes and Eric Tiemens, for example.
If you want to see a water based medium handled with grace and experience, look at their work. I feel like a bull in a china closet. But it was fun to try anyway.
b.
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