I love experimenting with textures. A few of my favorite artists who use lots of texture are Ann Blockley, Jean Haines, and Australian watercolorist John Lovett. It's not as easy as it looks from their paintings. Ann Blockley creates such interesting paintings using lines and squiggles and watercolor mixed in with acrylic inks, gouache, granulation medium and plastic wrap. After much practice, I was quite pleased with this one. However, I made the mistake of using all warm colors and not having a contrast of warm against cool, so I glazed over the sky area with indanthrone blue mixed with alizarin, hoping it wouldn't ruin the piece. I think it worked. A good friend came up with the title for me. It does look like the aftermath of a big storm. I used acrylic inks and watercolors for this one. I'm enjoying exploring with mixed media for special effects.
The warm and cool touches are really beautiful, the eye goes directly to the diverging branches and they look so attractive even with out any bloom. Very attractive piece.
ReplyDeleteJean - lovely piece and I think the title is quite appropriate. Love how you managed to bring some cools into this painting as well. Hope you are having a great day.
ReplyDeletevery delicate glaze jean ...works beautifully
ReplyDeleteReally lovely, Jean. The tangled vegetation is so loose and random, really nice marks and brushwork :)
ReplyDeleteThe textures are very interesting and the whole piece turned out beautiful! I like the textures and lovely warm palette sof your last several posts
ReplyDeleteHello Jean, your paintings are all looking lovely. I have just looked back on your last posts of flowers, trees and seascapes all very fresh looking yet full of atmosphere. It is interesting to read about your experiments with texture etc, keep up the good work.
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