Monday, October 24, 2011

Red



Here is a really fun painting I've finished as a challenge to a wonderful forum (which I love)...painting friends...where we have one of our artists post a photo every first of the month...we paint it just however we want...and we post on the 20th of the month. It is just the most fun to paint with red...(have I ever mentioned that it's my fav color in watercolor?). Our son's first truck (and boys in Texas have trucks) was a 1951 CandyApple red Ford pickup...this reminded me of him. Couldn't decide what I wanted to do with the background, so I just left it for now.

8 comments:

  1. all the time i was painting this red truck, i was thinking.... mollie is loving this red for sure.. i think the background is wonderful and sets this truck up as the star of the show!!! nice painting, friend!!

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  2. Oh, Mollie, that red is fabulous! It reminds me of all your luscious strawberries:-) I agree with Cindi that the background is perfect to showcase the truck.
    Beautiful!

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  3. Thanks Cindi...your reds were wonderful too...wasn't this fun.

    And thanks Christine...you really should give some of our challenges a try...it's lots of fun to compare how different everybody's paintings look even tho we're painting the same thing.

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  4. This is how a red truck should be painted - fabulous! I also love that background and wouldn't do a thing to it! xx

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  5. I think this is just perfect! Fab shiny red truck, and I love the setting, especially the foreground grasses with that touch of red.

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  6. Thanks Pat and Sharon...these challenges are always such fun...and really educational in that we paint stuff we might not ever paint. Red is such fun to mess with...

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  7. Wow, this is a great truck Mollie, and I love the way you've loosely done the foreground.

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  8. Your truck is wonderful Mollie, so many beautiful tones, and so shiny! I think your background is just perfect as it is ... a lovely painting! :)

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