Watercolours patchwork

Carol's patchwork quilt - only halfway done, but already absolutely gourgeous, in colour and in shape.

In this blogpost you'll get an update of the creations of the aquarellista group, who met up last Tuesday in the Hangar in Chateauneuf! The sujet du jour was 'rolled up quilts' and most took that subject and didn't quite finish. But the first results are already impressive and I can't wait to see them finished - as always they are as different as the personalities of the painters. Watch this space to see the completed versions in the coming weeks!

Celina's rolled up patchwork, in recognizable Celina-style!

Michele's beautiful quilt, only needs a bit of shadow to give it depth and volume!

The first colours on another awesome Liz-interpretation of the subject...

Glen cleverly used the patchwork theme to try out the full wash, how creative! This is the painting after washing it, so in its palest form - next time she'll add the patterns

Another creative interpretation, of Anna-Karin. She is still undecided how this optical illusion will develop,

Above are pictures of the work of all the experienced Aquarellistas, there is also a group of starters. They are working on exercises that introduces the typical properties of watercolours and lets them solve all the challenges with different solutions.

Eyes behind the mask by Judith

Eyes behind the mask by Jutta

How to suggest transparency - of a curtain. You'll see the solutions next post

In the next exercise,  Judith and Jutta were free to do what they wanted within the instruction: 'cool background first, then warm foregound, then details.' 

Both were not too impressed with the results - but I am, because they both showed originality!

Tree-like shape by Jutta

Under-water landscape by Judith

And then there were also the ongoing projects and the personal paintings

Carol's Odd One Out

 

The awesome apple of our long-distance participant Violet!

Bev's piazza in Vigevano àlmost finished!! We will definitely see the end result before she travels back to Connecticut

And our new participant, Maud, started a street view, on request of a friend...

In the meantime we are also working on a completely different project: we are proving that in watercolours you can achieve the same depth of colour as in oils. So together we are creating a copy in aquarelle of the oil painting 'River Lovers' by Jo Painter. Brenda has really done a lot to make it happen, but also Carol, Marie-Claire, Liz, Hélène and yours truly part-icipated.  Cathie has promised to do one also - and then we are ready to see if we were right! Here's a preview: