Monday, 27 February 2012

Autumn rope swinging.

15x11" on Arches rough watercolour paper.
M. Grahams watercolours.

I made this scene up, partly from a photo and partly from a sketch I had.
The sketch was of one of my daughters from years ago, when we went to Rivington Pike, where we found a rope swing.
 I used the photo as my basic inspiration, mainly to plan out my colours, but I changed the composition, because I wanted to add in the people and the rope swing to give the scene some life.
I was quite pleased with the outcome of this painting. The colours are more vibrant in real life.

Rough sea.
15x 7"
Mixed media.

I enjoyed playing with this painting. It has got irridescent medium on it, (amongst other things) and when the light catches it, it glistens just like water would. It is virtually impossible to get a representational photo of the painting. It looks better in real life............as I say alot these days.

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