Painting a Fearless garden landscape
Each week I teach online painting classes forSpokane Community college. My goal, in these programs, is to help my students be inspired, use their imagination and paint Fearlessly! Today's blog is about finding new ways to paint an old bike in a beautiful garden. This inspiration, I found while wondering around The Rosarium Garden Center in Spokane, WA . I thought this photo would be a challenging,but fun project for my spring watercolor class. I began this program by creating a detailed drawing on 300 lb cold press watercolor paper that I previously brushed a diluted mixture of water and gesso over. I like to "gesso" my paper before painting with watercolors, because the diluted gesso makes my watercolor paper "forgiving". I can paint and still lift off even dark saturated pigments like pthalo blue. In this painting, I chose to use the following hues: hansa and new gamboge yellows, alizarin and vermillion reds, pthalo and ul...
