Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Today I have been practicing brush strokes and what is better than working on calligraphy for that - Me, a bar of ink and a big brush and some watercolours aceo-sized pieces of paper.
Here are the results. Among the 4 most used stles I chose to work on the more cursive, artistic style than the more square, printed version of the symbols.
During the last months I have experimented with changing colours or opaquiety/transparancy of different mediums, looked at values and tones by working in monochrome etc etc. All in all I have found that every style, topic or medium has something to teach me and thus I can safely just follow wherever my muse is taking me. At present it is obvious that it is taking me practicing lines and movements.
All I need to do is follow along. Thank you muse
Sunday, April 29, 2007
When I was in London recently I bought a bar of chinese ink and a winsor & Newton 8 colours set of inks. All of this weekend has been spent playing with these my new toys. Here are the first 3 one I made. All are 2.5"x3.5" ACEOs or ATC (artist trading cards). media is as I said ink only on quality watercolour paper. Price is usually $10 for my aceos. They are not totally original since I used instructional books when painting them. Practicing in this manner is by the way an honored tradition within chinese brush painting. 
Horse with Flying Mane
Sitting cat SOLD
Pink Orchid. I have not yet found out how to use the ink properly to get the colours I want. I guess it is practice, practice, practice.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Painting outside today - aquarelles=watercolours SOLD (YBOBB)
0 comments Posted by Trine at 11:17 pmToday the sun was shining and life was good so I grabbed some watercolour paper and a box of watercolours, a tin of water and a few brushes and brought it all outside. Here are the results:
A Forsythia outside my house. It is kind of incredible how these flowers bloom long before they get any leaves and as a photo earlier this month shows while we still have snow.
Yellow Blooming on Bare Branches
watercolour on A6 = postcard on 300g/m2 paper
Price: $20
Sound of Spring
watercolour on A6 = postcard on 300g/m2 paper
Price: $20
Price: $20
Friday, April 27, 2007
Sunflower2. aquarelle(watercolour) postcard (A6) on 300g/m2 quality watercolourpaper by Sorry the newest paintings have not been uploaded to ebay yet. Sorry the photquality does not show it too well.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Continuing working and studying flowers and watercolour technique. Today working on sunflowers.
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