Ink on watercolor paper, yellow marker and green water soluble pencil. I like to draw with antique pencil, it makes me think in centuries, not years.

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Books are my highly prized possession. This is the view from my couch nightly but the books in front of me always changing.
This was done in a Strathmore 5.5×8 coil bound journal with 90lb. watercolor paper. I won this in a blog contest! This will be a good use for it. I used a PITT pen for the drawing. LOVE these.

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I often turn my painting upside down when putting in reflections as it seems to lessen the confusion when sorting out the colours and tones. We are, in effect, painting our cottage and some other parts in reverse and in watery colours and tones. We’re moving into unknown territory here, as the exact colour and tone will depend on the quality of the water and how still it is. Dirty water gives fewer reflections. Moving water will distort the reflections. I’ve chosen a nice clean lake in calm weather. No matter how calm, water usually has some movement or ripples, so we must indicate this by making the edges wobbly and irregular. Our colours and tones must also be watery and fairly loose. Lots of room here for personal style and experiment. You might want to try this out on some scrap paper before venturing onto the actual painting.

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Created Jan 25 2011
Watercolors and tempera paints.
Spray inks

Empathy matters.

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