washington beaches are gorgeous
This is why we must go.
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Studying my colours
Recently I’ve noticed of the worst features I could have in my life: I am a workaholic. But this workaholism is not about Art, studying French of other things I like to do. It’s all about my work, which is not even close to visual arts. If I have a huge project to complete in two weeks, I’ll complete it in a week and then get another one. I feel myself exhausted, the lack of sleep doesn’t make me happy, I don’t see my friends as often as I would like… I am not even mentioning my hobbies and a simple desire to lie down on a couch with a good book and a cup of tea!
So, I decided that it’s time for a big change. I am tired that my work rules my life and I’d like for it to be vice versa.
I’ve been studying my colours. In one of the blogs I’ve read about the exercises students do in the College of Illustration, so I decided to follow and do them by myself. It was a lot of fun, and I really discovered something new about my palette, my preferences when choosing the colours and how to handle the colours I really don’t like.
The first task was to mix as many greens as possible having only primary colours. I chose Cadmium Yellow, Cadmiun Red and Ultraviolet.
As you can see, some of these are green, some of them are not J. But still, I’ve realized how many you can have having only THREE basics! I always read all those colour theories, but I never implemented the advice on practice. And now, when I did, it was like a curtain fell from my eyes. It’s amazing! I can have greens. Nice brows, rich greys, calm violets…I was blind and now I can see them all in those three boxes.
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So, it’s time to record my first hours. Last week I took my paints and started to work. Soon I realized that my pause in Art served me badly. I wanted to do a live painting as the sky I was observi…
Today’s post is all about inspiration.
One of my favourite illustrators of all time is Veronika Kalacheva, a very talented young lady from Russia. Her art represents what true watercolour is to me: light, tender, expressing the mood, the connection between form and colour, unexpected and effective colour decisions. Every time I look on her pictures I feel like I am a part of the story, like I’ve been there before. Maybe, that is the reason why I like Veronika’s art so much!
I think, her works are the role model for me. Sometimes I see some pics and I appreciate the talent and work behind them, but rarely I say to myself that I’d like to paint like that. Not in this case. These watercolours represent the technique that I’d like to master in future. I am not fond of realism, there’s no expression of a personal view to me (yet, I think, those who do realism are talented and do great job), but here is everything I want: mood, the whiteness of a paper that almost blinds you, and wonderful strokes, and they ain’t that easy to do, you know!