watercolour landscapes - semi-abstract

here I am again, doing something different. Read an article in a very old art magazine which inspired me to do some semi-abstract watercolours at my art group last week. I chose to work in an atc format for two reasons. 1) I could get more paintings finished in the two hours I had available and 2) I do love this small art format. And I can also get to swap them if anybody is willing. I decided to just use a couple of colours for each painting with a touch of a third.


here are the results:-

using cadmium yellow and a mix of red and burnt sienna


using alizarin crimson and ultramarine/burnt umber


using cadmium red and cadmium yellow/lemon yellow

All the paintings were done wet into wet and the colours were arranged to represent a sky/foreground showing a level horizon. I worked into the nearly dry work with a cocktail stick to add a little extra detail for interest. You can see larger versions of these photos on my flickr photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadfan66/.

Actually I was quite pleased with myself. Not only because I like the paintings but also because it has been so long since I used my watercolours. I think I am ready to try a larger format next week. I will let you know how it goes.

ADDENDUM: the artist concerned who inspired the above paintings with his article in the May 2006 issue of "The Artist" magazine was Justin Cooke. Check out his site there are some great paintings.