Sunset Sea Watercolor Demonstration

 

 

Sunset Sea#3

This painting is a bit overdone and muddy. It is because the initial wash was too light and I ended up adding too many layers…something to avoid in watercolor…

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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…

 

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