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Watercolor painting - Chili

 

This is a 5 x 7 inches watercolor painting of a red chili pepper.  I try to apply a wash for a background instead of leaving it white as many of my last paintings.  This is a still life using artist Winsor and Newton watercolor and is done on cold press watercolor paper.   This one was done by painting the chili pepper first and leave the background and the shadow for last.  I will try to do one where I paint the background first and leave the pepper and shadow for last.  Then I would like to do another one with an underpainting for the entire sheet of paper before I paint the subject and the background.  It would be a good exercise for me to learn the property of the transparent watercolor.

Watercolor Painting - Ballroom dancing

 

I have been putting aside the ballroom dancing watercolor for a while because I have not decided what to paint on the background.  It is not an easy decision and finially I have enough courage to start and try to finish it with a wash of blue watercolor for the background.  I started to paint from the top with misture of French Ultramarine Blue.  As I painted towords the middle, other blue like Cerulean Blue is added to the wash.  I need to work quickly around the ballroom dancers with the background wash.  It is typical of watercolor paint and it is unpredicable in areas of washes.  Finally I came to do the lower area in which there is shadows and I added more French Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson and a touch of Prussian Blue to the mixture.  Before it is dry, the shadow was painted several layers of wash to achieve the desire intensity.  It is a 15″ x 20.5 inches watercolor painting on cold press watercolor paper.