Here Joyce finishes a second demo for the first day of the Dillman's workshop. These are all just "practice" paintings to start to get the "hang" of her approach to watercolor painting. We painted two of these "practice" painting no with no references other than her demos.
"Perfection is the enemy of great art" says Joyce. Rather she wants us to work out our sketches and compositions and then put them aside to try to paint as much from "within" as possible and not be a slave to a photograph. Although I have heard this many times, I think I am finally going to get this. Joyce is taking us through the steps in that process slowly.
Tomorrow she is going to work specifically on the photo to sketch process and then the sketch to the small color preliminary painting. She says "the idea is more important than the object".
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