A portrait that glows - in Watercolours

 

 

The one and only Sue, painted this sunny portrait of a little girl, in the style of Jan Kunz. She shares my enthusiasm and ordered the book. Highly recommended.

 

An amazing 'portrait that glows' above, by Sue - last week's theme for the Aquarellistas. The only one but we'll definitely repeat this in the near future - with a bit more explanation. It is a wonderful way of painting, with bold use of colours and contrasts. So - more later and luckily there were plenty other initiatives to compensate for it - so, in the meantime:

this fantastic pair of eyes on an icy owl, very well painted by Sonya. On handmade rough torchon paper, that absorbs the paint so much more - which makes it  even more difficult to create a balanced painting, yet she definitely nailed it and her owl has so much character!

Introducing William Edmondson, painted by Ingrid from a tiny black and white newspaper photograph. He has a beautiful face, and apart from that he is an amazing sculptor (google him if you are interested!) who started at the age of 60 (there's hope!) with sculpting tomb stones, was discovered and his beautiful work now resides in lots of museums. Great painting - and informative!

 

During the period that is now àlmost behind us, Randi has specialized in flowers. She has painted a lot of them, getting so much practise, and that shows! They vary from stylized decorations like above to spontaneous natural colour-explosions like below!

 

 

 

We can always count on Judith's 'A Veil a week' and here is one that expresses the process of a plant growing. That is all the information I have - but if I may interpret, I see stuff going up to the brightest of lights and then darkish tones on the bottom in a kind of rough surface. If I am wrong I am sure I will hear that and then I will come back on it

 

 

and an extra excellent watercolour by Randi, just to show that she can paint more than flowers! A really good view on the church in Le Rouret...

 

Counting down, two more weeks and the live Aquarellista groups will see each other again for real. Can't wait!