Central Park Autumn

Autumn…It comes and goes so fast…

 

 

I tried to make the foliage as spontaneous as possible. One of the challenge in doing this painting is to find the perfect marriage between those quick foliage washes and the branches…and I still haven’t find the best way to paint those leaves edges…

 

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Fisherman at Sea by JMW Turner – How dirty colors turn bright.

The Metropolitan Museum is having a great exhibition of JMW Turner’s oil and watercolor paintings; originally I was planning to take pictures for all of his works, but unfortunately photograph was prohibited for this special exhibition. I took only one picture and was caught and warned by a guard there immediately, luckily they won’t force

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Learning Chinese Painting

 

After painting Central Park series for more than a year…I feel I got bored sometimes of painting the same theme over and over….

But somehow, I still feel I am very inadequate in the brush works of my trees in my watercolors…

So I thought I should learn from Chinese painting to improve it…

 

This is a

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Evening at Cental Park #26

 

The photograph really does not do justice to the overall atmosphere of this painting

Evening at Central Park #20

Both images are 8″ x 12″
300lb Arches cold press
with Sennelier watercolor

Both are painted with photo reference taken at the Central Park, NY…
However, they were done with different methods. This first one is additive layering(not sure if there is such term…), I painted the lighter background and gradually added darker foreground. The second one on the

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