Saturday, December 13, 2014

Cypress Swamp

Here is the second painting I did in the LianZhen workshop in Dallas.   I masked out the egret totally before doing the pouring and negative painting in the background....did all that first.  It's still rather amazing to me that we produced all this color with Antwerp blue, Hansa yellow, and Perm red....it just works like magic.  After we spattered and poured the colors around, we "finger painted" and spritzed with water to blend the colors and then just found tree shapes in the background and the cypress trees appeared.  It's crazy that all this riot of color works.  The water is just extension of the colors I saw in the trees....just drug down with a really wet brush.  Like I said in my last post, this is one of the most enjoyable workshops I've ever taken.  Lian is a wonderful teacher.


6 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! Your water is amazing and I love the color.

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  2. I love the effects that you have achieved, Mollie. I see a lot of stunning "loose" paintings in your 2015 future!

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  3. Truly gret Mollie. I love the wy you handled the background. Bet you had fun cause it shows in your work. Xx

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  4. Love it! I'm envious that you studied with Lian Quan Zhen. On my to-do list. Spraying and finger painting with color sounds so much fun.

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