Brandberg #2 – first wash
Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 3, 2009 under Art, landscape, Namib, painting, watercolor, watercolour | 
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the first wash was a little more difficult – i think I should have use staining blues rather than French Ultramarine – I was keen to have a smooth wash – but I will see how I feel in the morning:
I had to stand on top of a step ladder and hold a camera over the painting to take this.
carolking said,
Oh great, soon your wife will be posting picture of you with crutches and in bed cause you fell off the ladder and broke your legs!
I like the washes so far. The sky already has texture to it.
swatch said,
Yes I was teetering a bit – I really must get a better setup. Yes I used French Ultramarine again because I like the granular texture it creates. After doing the wash I tilted the whole table from all sides which in itself was a mission – that creates more texture. I am starting to use more staining blues to practice getting flat washes. Winsor Newton have so many lekker new colours – but as Bill says – they are all really expensive. I am paying up to R120.00 for a tube of paint smaller than my pinkie finger which is about 7 or 8 beers (the usual economic index).
I have packed the painting away for now – there is other work to be done. S
Carol King said,
Funny! I love your economic index. It’s very similar to Matt’s. I was looking at some winsor newton tubes of watercolor last week and COULD NOT BELIEVE how expensive they were. And you’re right! They were tiny!
swatch said,
I sat with my friend Andrew who is going to help me make screens for the exhibition. He found where I can get timber for almost a third of the price of what I was going to buy. When we did the calculation he said “that would keep me pissed for a week!” Try put that on a spreadsheet!!
I still use the W&N because they are richer colours – the cheaper colours contain more fillers and the pigments are less finely ground apparently.
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