Saturday, March 7, 2020

Reds A Poppin'

15x15 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today for a timed challenge of 2 hours or less and I painted it with 10 minutes left.  Painting the red poppies in a direct manner wet on dry, I used primarily Perylene Maroon, Transparent Pyrrol Orange and Alizarin Crimson (Daniel Smith) and True Red (Grumbacher).  Darker red shadow areas had a mix with ultramarine blue, quinacridone violet, and thalo blue.
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1 comment:

Jo Castillo said...

Wow, popping’ for sure. This is so beautiful. The red squirrel is so cute and I’m anxious to see what you do with the abstract. Happy Sunday.

March 8, 2020 at 9:02 AM

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