Little Houses

in #art7 years ago

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Resist the colour

I was demonstrating to a small group the watercolour resist technique of combining watercolours with oil pastel. I built up coloured lines on paper with the oil pastel before adding watercolours, the watercolours resist the areas of the paper where the oil pastel is.

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Later, as I was clearing away I took another look at the paper I had used in my demonstration, it seemed a shame to discard the brightly coloured picture. One of the shapes looked to me like a house, so using white acrylic paint I built up the lines of the shape and then added more small white houses to the picture.

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I fitted the little white houses into the space between the curved lines, it made me think of houses spread across a hillside hugging the curves of the landscape.

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I think what interests me most about this picture is that the starting point was free in movement- almost an act of automatic drawing. After this starting point a composition was planned to include the houses, and with this came a controlled placement of the houses. So the image comprises of carefully placed and painted shapes alongside loose and free mark making.

'Little Houses'

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Have a great day!

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Good mixture of colors, keep it up

Perfect color combinations.

They match your avatar!

Thats why I like these colors 😉

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Excellent art

This contains the nostalgia of drawing with a crayon when we were kids. Great pieces

Yes! Exactly the same technique, the oil pastels are just softer.

It's a nice work @opheliafu. I like the colors

Thank you very much, this piece is very colourful!

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I really like this job, congratulations for the colors you have selected, beautiful work, my dear friend, @opheliafu
I wish you a beautiful week

Wow! I love the vibrant colours in this one. I'm not sure I have ever seen pastels combined with watercolour-- but it definitely works really well.

I have a few flower pieces using the technique, i'll have to dig out the posts.

That is awesome... I am just amazed how anyone can turn just about any thought, mistake, doodkes, etc to creat something beautiful!👍

Thank you, there is potential in most things, it's just using the imagination to see what it could become.

Impressive art..