Water color, colour, co lore.

This quarter I really tried to do something new with Painting.  I feel like most days Painting and I get along.  With water colour I really tried to experience this medium for the first time.  Without preconceived notions of how I was supposed to do it.  To get better, you must fail at it somehow.  So through trial and error, I suffered through putting too much watercolor on a paper drenched with water.  Therefore ruining the texture of the paper making it look like a green artist.  I also used the watercolor too thick, making it look more like an etched print.  Through my fifty paintings, I went through a transition.

 I really started to enjoy the colours mixing as they were wet.  A brush that is just enough saturated with water and color, set down on a strong sheet of water colour paper, then dragged slowly across the paper with a brush of another colour. Drop an even wetter drop of white pigment and watch it spread.

This piece made me want to travel.  I felt like I was in a place of travel or I had to get somewhere.  An icy background with small doors of unknown places.  Perhaps a stairwell here... there.  This was the one I felt made the best transition.  

 I tried to work with that previous technique more so... These were based off of two blurred images.  As I continued with this, I wanted to explore using more watercolour using the saturated, dragging technique.  The being in the center of the page is where the saturated colours were merging and very still because of the puddle on the sheet of paper.  I had gotten a result that was unexpected.  Kind of like staring into space.

This one included layering of watercolour with some different brush techniques.

Above: For someone who who wasn't quite a big fan of the abstract... This one above really just captured the imaginative narrative side as I was painting and continuing afterwards.  To the Right: Model from Open Figure Drawing.  I became really excited when I started sculpting the form with circles.  Below:  During Class, I really enjoy how the transitions were possible even through the minimal graphite and water colour.

Below:  The key word here is minimal.  I used too much graphite and I realized this as soon as I put brush to the water colour paper.  For me this painting works even with the darker side of the face.  The confusing information of light and dark creates deeper thought.  However... I am going to create a darker background with smaller circles.  Perhaps then some eyes can see what I can see.

Co Lore.