You may have noticed that I go back and forth between several painting media. No sense being stuck or type cast, at least not for this creative artist!
My go-to medium is watercolor, most often what's called "line and wash", generally pen outlines with a wash of watercolor within or even outside the lines. It's an illustrator's technique, so if it reminds you of books or magazines you've read, that's why it looks so familiar. Line and wash allows for detail enhancement, and for me it's about the quickest way to paint, most taking 20 - 30 minutes. The antique farm wagon was captured on paper at Forest Home Farms Historic Park in San Ramon, CA. Lovely setting full of old farm subjects. There was a handsome quarter horse on the ranch, but he declined to stand still for his portrait. Do you see how the lines enhance the sense of detail, even as there really isn't that much detailed specifically?
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As the talk show host used to ask, "Is that your FINAL answer?"
I said "Banty Rooster" was influenced by 3 painters and one sculptor. The sculptor is my trick question. He was the originator of modern stylized stick figure sculpture and a master at eye-twisting 3 dimensional depictions of heads. Bet you didn't get this one without the hint! Even a Kung Fu master must start by learning, and I'm learning this new medium, Caran D'Ache Neocolor II, which they call "pastels" but are really crayons. Not your old Crayolas, BTW, they are actually sticks of watercolor in a waxy base.
Practicing on Grasshopper Loop in La Honda, CA, I captured the typical California hill scenery on a hot summer day. These are the rolling hills dotted with scrub and coast oaks that the California Impressionists painted so often. Modernized and stylized by Eyving Earle in his famous prints, and rendered in boldly colorful watercolors by Robin Purcell. It's a land form that looks like rolling ocean waves, golden when sere from the seasonal heat, molded by the shadows of a blue summer sky. Very reminiscent of Tuscany, by the way. Can you feel it? |