My PPF painting this week is inspired by Joanne Thomas's Watercolour Line and Wash instruction video. There are also videos on painting movement and using a palette knife. If you want to learn something new and maybe win $50 worth of art supplies, check out the challenge page. The contest ends on Sunday, July 8, so you still have a little time to enter.
I really enjoyed the line and wash technique, but I always end up frustrated whenever I do this kind of lesson because I expect my painting to look like the instructor's. Which is totally unrealistic, considering I doubt I have 1/10 of the experience!
I had the same problem this week doing my Zentangles. I let my expectations get in the way of my art. My new mantra will be: "LET GO and GO WITH THE FLOW." Expectations only lead to disappointments.
Despite this painting not looking like the Joanne's, I kind of like it and will definitely add this technique to my toolkit. Happy PPF. If you enter the contest, please let me know. I'd love to see your interpretation.
I think it is a fabulous painting- I really love the house in the back that is nestled into the trees. Can so relate to the expectations getting in the way. Happy PPF
ReplyDeletewell, this looks like somewhere I would love to live! I really like this style of watercolour with the ink hatching lines - really lovely!
ReplyDeleteLove the watercolor and pen and ink ~ very well done ~ ~ thanks, ^_^ (A Creative Harbor)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful scene. Happy PPF, Annette x
ReplyDeleteOh, love this painting. The colors are fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely love to be in that painting. I'd be outside hanging clothes, tending to the garden and that little house to the side is my studio. Let me in!!:) Love it! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteOK - You can do the wash and the gardening and we can paint together :-)
DeleteI really like this. I am going to check out the video and challenge site you suggest. I think this is very well done. I am also toying with tangles and with some watercolor effects. I am really enjoying it, too.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy the video as much as I did. I love combining watercolor and tangles. I don't know why I don't do it more. Thanks for the suggestion :-)
DeleteThis is fabulous. There's a really nice feeling to this--
ReplyDeleteThis is really pretty! The greens are just so alluring.
ReplyDeleteYour painting is fabulous!! Don't compare yourself to others, it's so discouraging.. sticking with your own style is best!!
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Thanks, Giggles. Once I find my style, I will definitely stick with it. My painting teacher said that the difference between an amateur and a professional is that an amateur may be able to create a beautiful work of art, but a professional will be able to recreate their art so that it looks the way they intended it to. I guess I'm still working towards that.
DeleteI love your painting. You wouldn't want it to end up like someone elses, then it wouldn't be yours. I make cloth dolls and if I follow a pattern, my doll never looks like the picture. . . it's 'mine' and s/he looks like it. So. . . be quite satisfied with your wonderful creativity, I certainly am. Blessings, Janet PPF
ReplyDeleteJKW - That is a great way to look at it. This painting is MINE. I never thought about it that way before.
DeleteGorgeous painting!
ReplyDeleteLove the color washes in the sky especially!
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Happy PPF!!
Mary
Mixed-Media Map Art
I don't know what the instructors looked like but who cares...yours is great!
ReplyDeletecheers, dana