We’re traveling to Castelletto di Brenzone today in our Watercolor Travel to Italy adventures – Lesson 14.
Look at all the pretty boats! That was my first thought. Then I started trying to paint the pretty boats and kept losing track of which boat was which – that group in the back sort of melded together. The masking-on of the boat names was well nigh impossible – that stuff goes on very globbily, if I may make up a word. The letters for the first attempt didn’t look so great when I removed the masking, so I decided to write them on with a black marker when it was dry. Big mistake. The names are now screaming their way across the side of the boat in a very unnatural way: LOBIA!!! OLIVIA!!!
I didn’t do any masking on the second attempt, but used a combination of gouache and regular watercolors to paint the names over the boat color. Works for me. Now that I look at the second one, I wished I’d darkened up the ropes tying the boats to the pier. But enough of my critical analysis. All you really should be thinking about when you look at it is: “Look at all the pretty boats!”
That’s a wrap for Watercolor Wednesday. How about one of you giving me a painting challenge for next week? (Keep it simple!)
I’ll globbily delete this in the morning.
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