Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Kentucky Spring


An interpretation of a photo by Deb Ward (with her permission).

11 x 15 watercolor on 140# Arches stretched.

(note that there is only one window in the small building because I think that two exactly the same look like "eyes" and detract.)

7 comments:

  1. Ginny, you did a fantastic job on this and I love your colors :) If you need more photos, let me know - we all three took tons but Deb did take more building photos (since I'd been there several times, I didn't take as many photos outside this time).

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  2. The painting is poured..probably obvious? Except for the green trees. Fence and houses are primarily negative painted. Tons of ways to do this painting. I hope you and Deb will try it in a different way and post.

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  3. I really like the photo (that's my thing) and was interested to see how you used it and yet did something so different (that's your thing). It's wonderful that you are getting so much out of your watercolorist career.

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  4. Yes, it is a lovely photo. Deb's careful attention to shadow and how it falls across the houses makes it alluring to paint. Sometimes I come back to a place over and over to see if I can get a better shadow/light mixture in the reference photo. Sometimes you just get lucky the first time.

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  5. Wow Ginny - this is great! You really did this quickly! What a great interpretation - you did my photo proud - I love it!!

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  6. One thing about poured paintings..they seem to go faster! And I tend to paint fast anyway. I am SO pleased that you like it. My husband likes it too and he's not easy to please! This was one of those paintings where I kept saying "is it done yet?" a lot. There was to be a serene simplicity that would be in keeping with the Shaker philosophy.

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  7. Love the Beautiful colors! I like that you made it your own too.

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