Misty Watercolours

 Michele got her inspiration from a photo of Sylvie! It is Paris in the mist and she did a marvellous job with her interpretation.

The first aquarellista sessions in March on Tuesday and Thursday were dedicated to 'foggy' or 'misty' scenes. It was a subject that asked for playing with lots of water, and everyone enjoyed it big time!

 Françoise used a lot of water for this poetic and fairy tale-like landscape...

This amazing mysterious forest was painted by Anna Karin, using Ox Gall for the light colored trees in the background...

 Glenn created her own version of the exercise and made the perfect mist!

 Liz let herself be inspired by the theme of last week 'bridges' and combined it with mist. Then in the last couple of minutes (yes, seriously 😃) she created this subtle misty and atmospheric city scape...

Judithis in the middle of her research and development. She creates one after another interesting-looking wet-in-wet painting. We can't wait to see what this will lead to.

On Thursday we continued the try-outs with Ox Gall & Gum Arabic and combined that with the mist. We're getting a grip on what you can and can't do with the mediums, Our findings will be consolidated in a blog post someday soon!

Randi created three misty landscapes based on the example.She really got the hang of it as you can see here! 

Sue combined the use of both mediums with her paintings. In the paintinga above she used Ox Gall to attach the blue paint and make it darker. As you can see it worked - and also combined well with salt! And the result is wonderful.

In this painting Sue used gum Arabic to wash the background and make it lighter. Again a wonderful misty painting - and interesting effect! To be continued...

I created a combination of the misty background and the trees, using ox gall and it worked this time (I cleaned my palette from all medium stains beforehand and that worked!)

And in the meantime...

 Glenn created the perfect onion! I am delighted with it.

Anna Karin tweaked her wet rocks & pebbles with reflection and made it look even better!

Catherine painted the last part of het 'small works' composition. She keeps surprising me! 

And last but not least Sonya worked on a bridge. It was one of these days where painting neat grey bricks is the zen thing to do; Structure and calm, great stuff.