Tuesday 20 March 2012

Something green for my first Artists Playroom

This is the first  challenge
for the Artists Playroom.
If you want to see other entries
just go over to
Just add water, silly
and check them out.

This weeks theme is
Green.

Here is my entry.





I know, how boring
a green leaf
but for me it was a challenge.
I have never attempted to do
a water droplet before
and it shows.

The first one I did
looked like a flat pancake
So I swooshed the paint around and
came up with the one at the top.
In my defence,
I am a horrible photographer
and it looks much better
in real life,
but you will have to take my word for that.

At first I was going to do this in
watercolour pencil
and cut up a bit of water colour paper,
then I decided that it would take too much effort
to colour all of that.
So I picked up my trusty acrylics
and started to paint.
I learnt a valuable lesson
don't use acrylics on water colour paper.
As soon as the paint hit the paper it was sucked in
and that makes it really hard to blend.
Not to be outdone
I had five brushes on the go at once
each filled with different coloured paint
and ready to hit the paper and blend
in record time.
It worked quite well
but now I have
green hair, arms and teeth.
Well I had to put the brushes somewhere!

Anyway, that is my entry,
it's not the greatest
but at least it's green.


15 comments:

  1. That drop is awesome! It turned out so well!

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  2. Von, This came out beautifully, droplets are so hard to do, yours looks very realistic, well done.

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  3. Fabulous art work that droplet is amazing, Hugs May x x x

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  4. WOW, Yvonne, this is so darn good! I've wanted to do this type of leaf too, I love the veining. I don't think it's "just a leaf", it's art. Thank for entering the APR challenge! The droplet looks wonderfully "full", not flat at all. I have a book by Birgit O'Connor, she teaches how to do an amazing water droplet, and she shows you on video that comes with the book, it looks seriously EASY the way she shows. Maybe you'd like her book! It's actually amazing, especially the video of her techniques. Here's the amazon link to see the book (http://www.amazon.com/Watercolor-Motion-Create-Powerful-Paintings/dp/1581808836/ref=as_li_tf_ssw?&linkCode=wss&tag=juadwasi-20),
    but if you decide to purchase it from amazon, would you do me a favor and click through to amazon from my site, I'd love to test out my new affiliate program with amazon.com or .ca (not sure where you live) and see if it actually works!
    Best,
    Jenn

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  9. LOL, sorry for all the deletions, blogger went CRAZY and printed like 7 of the same comment! Heehee.
    Jenn

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  10. Well in my humble opinion you rocked the green leaf and the droplet!

    Warmly, Tracy

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  11. Well in my humble opinion you rocked the green leaf and the droplet!

    Warmly, Tracy

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  12. Terrific! your leaf & droplet are Beautifully done!:) oh, and thanks so much for stopping by my blog :D

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  13. Von I think your water droplet is awesome... you are way to harsh and I love the leaf... you do glossy green leaves so well... wish I could have seen the green hair and teeth.... did you get any smudges of it on your glasses??? I do that all the time...xx

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  14. I think this is pretty cool. Don't be too hard on yourself. It's great! Look forward to seeing your piece for the next challange. :)

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  15. You nailed that drop - amazing reflections captured! All your works are so beautifully vivid. Love it! And that mad cow - hilarious!

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Thanks, Von.