Swapping our Watercolours: the Results!

Cathie painted an interesting background with green and blue dripping, dotted masking fluid and possibly candle wax. Jutta looked long and hard and created this emotional  vampire atmosphere in the blistering rain...

'Swapping' - That's something we do when we can sit outside. Where we can use as much water as we need. An plash and spatter and then give the next person the board to finish. It is so much fun - loosens you up and gets everyone out of their comfort zone. The results are often interesting and funny and always different from what we usually do!

Here are the results, not all are completed but we have promised each other to finish them during the summer break and of course show them to you.

Sandra started this painting with a thick gesso smear and a black element. Brenda then used that input to create a 'Hans Hartung'-like bird, that has such a fantastic strength - and despair...

A mega-interesting abstract! Full of interesting techniques, subtle little lines and spots and stamps. It is wonderful. A combined effort of Brenda (background) and Sandra (foreground)

Celina painted a background using salt, with fabulous green shades and a bit of pink. Marina immediately recognised an upper lip - which became a mouth and  of course developed in a friendly face. To be finished this summer!

Jutta painted a very wet and beautiful blue-toned background, and then Cathie painted these bright orange fruity shapes on them, with a dark contrasting flowy shadow. The balls are in a non-balance, which makes the whole picture so exciting to look at!

Then Jutta painted another background, with colours. It was initially picked up by Marina who saw a landscape in it and then Celina took it and created the loveliest funny fantasy-animal. To be finished, looking forward to it...

Marina painted a light background in blue tones. Monica took it after that had dried and immediately recognised a seascape, with a little boat , a light and romantic tree and much much more.

In the meantime...

Cathie had this beautiful start of a honeysuckle flower available to swap but everyone was too much into abstract 'splatter'-mode to dare to take this...

While also painting on her swap, Brenda worked some more on the amazing honeysuckle. Not to see in the picture, it is quite large and already looking amazing! She will continue with it after the summer holidays...

Celina painted this last week - and because it is for the Aquarellista cookbook, I had saved it there, not in the blog. But look how great it is! For a Yummy  recipe that uses lemons and mint. - and ingredients from two other paintings

More lemons, by Jutta. Likely also for a recipe in our Aquarellista Cookbook. A fresh lemon cake comes to mind... or a home made limoncello...