Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Italy Lesson 11

I’m embarrassed to admit this, but deciding to put these watercolor lessons and experiments on my blog is the only reason they get done. So thank you for providing just the right motivation for me to continue on with the Watercolor Trip to Italy. I just looked over the first lesson which I did late last year and realized that I’ve really learned a lot since then. Mixing colors is more difficult than I thought and it’s starting to feel a little more natural to me. I’ve also come to the conclusion that I don’t have to have exactly the same color as the example, although that’s my goal. So here we are at Lesson 11 out of 18.

I decided to do more outlining with the second attempt and I appreciate how it at least makes the wooden posts in the water more visible. They’re hard to see in Attempt #1. Comparing the artists’ rendering with the original photograph is instructive, isn’t it? Again, they’ve taken a photograph in which the colors are somewhat flat and uninteresting and enlivened it. When I’m done with this course, I’d like to try to do a couple paintings from photographs on my own, so I’ll tuck that information away for now.

Which one do you think turned out better?

Thanks for traveling to Italy with me in the watercolor world.

I’ll probably delete this in the morning, which is something I always say, but perhaps never actually do.