Watercolors

This weekend I attended another painting workshop. It was held at Atlantic Cape Community College.

We painted flowers using watercolors. The instructor was excellent, and as always, I learned a lot of new techniques.

Painting flowers can be quite difficult since each flower has a different petal and leaf shape. They are also difficult to paint because of the twists and turns in the stems, petals and the flower clusters themselves. Creating the appearance of a shear flower petal without a great deal of transparency is tough and requires a lot of planning of layering.

Painting with watercolor takes a great deal of thought. You must paint from light to dark colors and avoid the areas to be left white. No straight black is used from a tube. Black paint must be created by the artist by mixing together, usually, three colors or more.

Even though watercolor painting sounds like a nightmare, It's still my favorite. Some day, when time permits, I plan to do a lot of painting.

But, for now, I'll stick to workshops, at least, I am still learning the process required to create a watercolor.

Polish Princess

ABOUT ME

If you haven't already noticed, I'm much older than anyone of you in the class, even Professor Reeder!

I'm the mother of two daughters and I have two grandsons who are almost two and almost five years of age.

I was, for eleven years, what in those days was called, a commercial artist. We used no computers because there

were none. Everything going to print was created on illustration board using india ink, tech pens, ink compasses,

rubber cement, French curves, galley type (which had to be specked mathematically to fit, sent out to be printed

on paper,then cut apart and pasted up, sometimes, sentence by sentence or even word by word to fit a layout) and

ruby lithe that was cut by hand to create masks. All this was time consuming work which required good vision and

steady hands. We also drew a lot of our own illustrations. Sound like fun??? More stories of yesteryear to come.