Comments on: I’m back!!! http://watercolorblog.wordpress.com Drawing is a given. Design is everything. Failure is your friend. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:15:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dianne http://watercolorblog.wordpress.com/demos/im-back/#comment-500 Dianne Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:55:24 +0000 http://watercolorblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=153#comment-500 Wow, I am loving your blog! I haven't done watercolor in years but have just started playing around with it again. I am so taken with the beauty of it - the process and all. I just did a piece for something and although I was pleased with the results, I realized how much I enjoyed the journey. I can't wait till I have time to read through more of your site. Hope you keep it coming! Wow, I am loving your blog! I haven’t done watercolor in years but have just started playing around with it again. I am so taken with the beauty of it – the process and all. I just did a piece for something and although I was pleased with the results, I realized how much I enjoyed the journey. I can’t wait till I have time to read through more of your site. Hope you keep it coming!

]]> By: watercolorblog http://watercolorblog.wordpress.com/demos/im-back/#comment-483 watercolorblog Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:29:28 +0000 http://watercolorblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=153#comment-483 Hi Mike... What I meant by "Do-Overs" is from Marcia Burtt www.marciaburtt.com/ and she is referring to covering up previous work. I have found that you can paint over transparent areas with thicker paint and wiping it off to make it appear to have a granulated look. Guess you could call it translucent??? Just play and see what happens!!! Hi Mike… What I meant by “Do-Overs” is from Marcia Burtt http://www.marciaburtt.com/ and she is referring to covering up previous work. I have found that you can paint over transparent areas with thicker paint and wiping it off to make it appear to have a granulated look. Guess you could call it translucent??? Just play and see what happens!!!

]]> By: Mike http://watercolorblog.wordpress.com/demos/im-back/#comment-480 Mike Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:44:57 +0000 http://watercolorblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=153#comment-480 Hi Joe, I have just started to read through your blog entries and hit this one. I have considered using acrylics as a watercolor technique to see how subsequent washes will affect previously dried ones (darkening and changing colors and such). But If you are using acrylics as a transparent medium, I am not sure what you mean by "do-overs". Are you referring to immediately wiping up a still wet wash that didn't work and not affecting the previously dried work? Or merely "covering" mistakes later with opaque acrylic paint (but I guess that wouldn't really keep it a transparent watercolor alternative). Just looking for some insight as to some techniques that you have played with so that a "fledgling" like myself doesn't burn too many pages when you have already done it :) Thanks for your site. BTW, I really appeciated your six page entry in the book, "The Watercolor Skies and Cloud Techniques of 23 International Artists". Two of the best paintings in that whole book were yours, Montana and Colorado Sky, especially Montana. The play of light and dark and the use of color in the sky made me want to pick up a brush and copy your work until I learn something from it :) Thanks again!! Michael Hi Joe,

I have just started to read through your blog entries and hit this one.

I have considered using acrylics as a watercolor technique to see how subsequent washes will affect previously dried ones (darkening and changing colors and such). But If you are using acrylics as a transparent medium, I am not sure what you mean by “do-overs”.

Are you referring to immediately wiping up a still wet wash that didn’t work and not affecting the previously dried work? Or merely “covering” mistakes later with opaque acrylic paint (but I guess that wouldn’t really keep it a transparent watercolor alternative).

Just looking for some insight as to some techniques that you have played with so that a “fledgling” like myself doesn’t burn too many pages when you have already done it :)

Thanks for your site. BTW, I really appeciated your six page entry in the book, “The Watercolor Skies and Cloud Techniques of 23 International Artists”. Two of the best paintings in that whole book were yours, Montana and Colorado Sky, especially Montana. The play of light and dark and the use of color in the sky made me want to pick up a brush and copy your work until I learn something from it :)

Thanks again!!

Michael

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