Expo Theme: Hidden Villages in Aquarelle.

Due to all kinds of things happening, I have not been able to write comments on the excellent work of the Aquarellistas this week! But I will post the wonderful results here and hope you will be inspired by it - I am sure you understand the beauty anyway.

First of all some 'Villages' - within our Expo theme 'hidden Villages'

Corinne's beautiful Fountain (in a village)

Roxane's amazing Iranian village in Payne's Grey pigment

Martine's WIP of a city in wet-and wet and a finished pre-existing Village.

Janine's wonderful Wedding in Vence

Then there was Nature

Anne's gorgeous wet-in-wet landscape and below, her awesome interpretation of dry wood

Sonya's outstanding birch trees with wet in wet /Salt background

WIP by Janine, Wet-in-wet

Then we had the continuing Christmas projects:

Above and below, wonderful wreaths by Sue

Lovely Christmas tree (card)s by Sonya

WIP by Glen - cool Christmas cards

And last but by no means least: the personal initiatives (all in red! Coincidence, yet funny)...

Marie-Françoise's Wet-in-wet Poppies

Thecla's as always original Abstract

and Anne's fab Wet in Wet version of the Red Sails

A start with Christmas cards combined with Wet-in Wet painting in Aquarelle

It's been a great Halloween and we're now slowly going towards Christmas. Really slowly, but still - cards are in the making. We will continue with that - next to our other projects, and also design personalized bookmarks.
But last weeks' main thing was still 'Wet in Wet'. We keep experimenting and the results are even better this time!

Corinne was the first to design some cards. The pictures don't do them justice, apart from colour, there is also gold leaf and golden pen here!




We all thought Laura's wet-in-wet lilies are a masterpiece. So powerful! And she had plenty of time left to do another painting...


Anne's next landscape with colourful sunset. It is so strong and in the actual painting the yellow is more visible so that the light of the sun is even stronger. Love it!

Thecla continued with the second layer of her wet-in-wet experiment and she now has a collection of honestly amazing cards. My favourites are the star and the tattoo but I definitely love them all!

Marie-Françoise absolutely outdid herself with two wonderful wet-in-wet paintings. Both the poppies and the watery landscape (not finished) are so good!

Sonya loved the experiment and painted two gorgeous watercolours - the one above had some damage when the blue tape did not stick too well (reminder to always press that well) but it will be repaired!
And the one below is WIP of birch trees




Janine works on a commission but while that dries she works on other things, like this first wash of a very wet landscape...

after her splendid lilies Laura started a painting, based on a pointilistic work by Fauvist painter Derain. She worked wet-in-wet and will continue next time to create that wild colourful effect!

Anna Karin worked on her leaves, still some work to do, but it is so good and so typical for her, with wet-in-wet everywhere, and a lot of negative painting (to leave out the leaves). And of course a Swedish autumn-touch: it will be very dark when finished. Awesome!

Janine's project is progressing very well!

Ingrid finished her version of the fauvist painting, it is so strong and colourful. Also fantastic details and... we detected Spiderman in it 😀She also started with a very personal birthday card. It is going to be different from what you see now as the beautiful balcony will be white (this is masking fluid)  - and there will be Palm Trees and sea in the view...

Wet-in-wet technique, and then some - in watercolours, what else?!

The session of last week was dedicated to wet-in'wet painting, the most well-known technique in Aquarelle, where you work with a wet brush on a wett surface. You need lots of patience, and insight in when it is just right for a certain effect. It was great fun, but we are not 'there' yet 😀

Anne ambitiously went for a wet-in-wet seascape and she pulled it off! The woman's talent is unbelievable,

It is looking so good!

Thecla worked on her design for the geometric abstract landscape (no photo) and experimented with wet-in-wet. She tried out all the techniques and combinations and had a lot of fun as well as discoveries, with granulating pigments and colours that change completely during the drying time. Next week the next stage, with the blue tape removed!

Like Thecla, I also experimented a bit, with very wet backgrounds and flowing colours and then gold leaf, 0,1 fineliner and one-hair brush. It was fun and opens a ton of possibilities. 

 

Anna Karin is always working wet-in-wet, in all of her objects. She continued with her version of Fauvist Derain painting and will decide next week if she is going to leave lots white or do all the colours. In both cases there is no doubt in my mind that it will be superb.


Ingrid also started with her version of  'The Turning Road' and although not yet finished, it is very fauvist in every aspect. Full of bright colour, daring shapes and lively. It is great to see all those interpretations!

 

Sandra's Superb still life is slowly developing, a wonderful process, where every colour invokes another one and lots of choices are to be made all the time. so interesting! and Beautiful.

 

Fauvism, Velvet Pumpkins and more - in Aquarelle

 Last session was a combination of all subjects of the last weeks. The results are impressive! Here's an overview...

FAUVISM


Version by Martine

Created by Laura

Charlie's interpretation


PUMPKINS


Velvet pumpkin, too good not to post but that is my opinion, not that of the maker 😄

I gave the velvet pumpkins a try too

FOLIAGE

Anne painted these leaves, fabulous! When she is more or less done, she always puts it on the easel and then tweaks it a bit. That's the last round, only for herself, we won't notice the difference😉

More leaves, these are painted by Ingrid - as well as the beautiful impressionist rendering of a woman reading under the trees. With a gorgeous sea view.

And leaves by Sue as well, same example and the results look alike although they got there in different ways! Below Sue's WiP, a gorgeous Wreath to be!

JAPANESE CHARACTERS

Brenda was there for the last time, she will be away until May. But she left an impression for sure with her Gorgeous Japanese Calligraphy, that she created in the correct way! Well done!

Janine has her first commission and worked on that. WiP, but already so good! And the Oyster painting is now finished. Looks fab!