Checkmate - Day 10

14" x 11" Watercolor on Paper

This is a transparent watercolor that I will be teaching step by step to

my Wednesday morning class at the Beach Art Center.  I still love

doing watercolor because they always create a challenge.  The big difference

between watercolor and oils is you have to have a "concept".  This was the topic of discussion 

in Wednesday afternoon oil painting class with Judy & Larry Pumfrey.  Larry ask the question

what is concept?  Basically it the plan, what's going on in your head about what

this painting should look like.  Watercolor, because of the way the paints are applied

to the  paper you have to have a picture in your "head" of what this will 

look like as a finished painting.  The nice thing about oils is you can change

your "Concept" in mid painting.  Just wipe off the area you want to change.

Not going to happen with watercolors......

This was a glass chest set our grandson gave us for Christmas a few years ago.  I love

the back light casting the shadow on the glass board.  This was painted with four tubes of paint, 

French Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna, Alizarin Crimson and Cobalt Turquoise.  

With the sedimentary nature of the French Ultramarine Blue and the Burnt Sienna, you get 

this very unique effect of the particles of paint separating.