Comments on: final update on a watercolour of the shale band in the cedarberg

By: swatch

swatch — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:27:52 +0000

Thanks K – I am keen to see how you do with this. I am hoping you will be doing more watercolours anyway.

By: lookingforbeauty

lookingforbeauty — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:35:19 +0000

Wow! you’ve been prolific lately. Good on you!
I must try your method of putting several colours in a single wash. It’s very effective. The mountains are a beautiful eye-catcher.
K

By: swatch

swatch — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:37:44 +0000

Hey Cecily – thanks -

By: butterflyhands

butterflyhands — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:17:27 +0000

This is really good, Stephen.

By: swatch

swatch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:39:13 +0000

Hey cool – that sounds like a lot of fun – our wildflowers are also out

By: napabelle

napabelle — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:02:46 +0000

Yes, I was gone for 3 days, just got back. Still so many wildflowers, but no more snow. I went to scout some hikes I will be leading in a couple weeks…

By: swatch

swatch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:55:49 +0000

Ja I also think it looks better – thanks hey – I am ready to move on now

By: Carol King

Carol King — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:30:08 +0000

I like that you added the grasses in the foreground. Ties everything together.

By: swatch

swatch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:32:07 +0000

Hi – thanks Leslie – I woke up in the night thinking about how I would like to show the texture of the grasses and restios in the foreground slope and how I wanted these to connect with the green slope going into the valley (there really is one) And I wanted to connect the ridges at the top of the picture to the snowy peaks. So when I got home last night that is all I wanted to do.
Yes I am well pleased with this. Time to move on to the next painting – I am inspired by the painting in Keith Hornblower’s header and have just been reading about making lights and darks glow by using complements – in Jeanne Dobie’s “Making color sing”. I love her approach to watercolour – even though she can’t spell colour (o: – Just kidding Jeanne.

By: swatch

swatch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:23:30 +0000

Hi Isabelle – thanks hey – it is nice to put in a bigger size now and again I think. Have you been in the mountains again lately? I thought of your walk when I was up there – all those snowy peaks are enticing