De Stael in Watercolours, a stunning experiment

Last Aquarellista sessions we took on a challenge, proposed by Martine, that was to paint a Nicholas de Stael painting in watercilours. His paintings mostly have very bright colours, are abstract and figurative depending how you look at them, are painted in oil and are very large. 

In short - a whole different piece of cake! But we started with it anyway and everyone liked it very much. 

The results are stunning, I am so proud of our group!! Well, you check it out for yourself, I'm pretty sure you will agree.

Martine, the one with the idea, painted a fabulous version with very strong colours. It has a lot of atmosphere and I am especially fond of the white line in the middle.

Brenda took a whole different and very original approach and after painting, added black lines (she does that more often, but usually with paintings of people). It worked out and became a playful landscapy  abstract!

Anne created a very good interpretation. The original is so abstract - and this version too, yet I can't help recognizing a wild sea here

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Michele C: chose to paint Antibes, the city of her childhood.
She says that on de Stael’s paintings she can find places that no one else will see. And she painted just that! Impressive and with a lot of depth.
 

Michele M is our new Aquarellista, and again she did a good job! She worked with the most difficult colour (if you ask me) in Aquarelle, Red. It is hard to get an interesting red, but Michele did it!! Greta work.

Roxane created her personal version, even from a personal angle (vertical) and WOW did it work out!! This is an abstract! With a mesmerizing blue tone as well as a very interesting composition. Love it.

Corinne painted this superb version, that comes very close to the original. It has depth and the suggestion of texture, also because of her clever use of the granulation of Ultramarine.

Glen Took a colourful painting and turned it in a stylised, warm, calm, summer landscape in the country. Perfection in colour as well as composition!


It is not yet finished, but already very intriguing, this painting by Bev! 


It looks very de Stael, but this is Sandra's own design, three intricate pots with an amazing background and reflection. Like I said during the line up, it catches your eye like a lithography and it is a statement of depth and simplicity. 


Corinne (above) and Glen (below) also started with the stack of prison clothes. Promising!

Sonya is working on other stuff: she is painting a bear for a charity auction. She decided that her first version (above) was way too nice and friendly, and started on a fiercer version (below)