17 articles avec 1_paint_day

This time, I opted for a combination of three pretty dull colors. As they are very dark, I referred to the photographic term, Low Key, which indicates the opposite of High Key, which means that the whole is very dark. It is true, as a watercolorist ,...

This triad is very close to the previous one, but with this difference, we can get darker colors without getting very dark blacks. The advantage of the Triads "High Key "is that they are transparent and produce bright colors. Their disadvantage is that...

Here we are in front of a triad with a strong personality. The colors are secondary and I used for that an orange, a purple and a green. Why "High Key" because the colors all have an average value barely exceeding 70%, it's darker than those of the triad...

I'm really sorry I could not publish articles on a daily basis. I had severe joint problems that prevented me from writing and painting. After an intervention of my rheumatologist and a few days off, I take up the challenge and I hope to publish the analysis...

Today, I change my registry ... The choice of the triad of High Key, that is to say composed of colors that have a low value ... Because of this, it is very difficult to obtain dark tones, even impossible because in the black and white comparison, you...

After disasters, and yes there will be others, I find a little more my landmarks with this triad I call Muted because especially the shadow earth color is a muted yellow. What better way to inspire me with an old rusty boat with a big chain at the dock....

Okay, here we are, the first week has passed. I apologize because I'm up to date with my challenges, but I'm late with the publication and analysis of triads used and watercolors completed. So for the 9th day, I used this triad of opaque secondary colors....

It's been a week since I painted watercolors in my notebook Fabriano Aquarello for the # 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 Challenge, using a new triad each day. Today I make my first portrait "Morning Stretch" with a triad called Vibrant Earth ... I replaced...

Well, here we are ... the opaque ones. I use opaque only at the last touch because I prefer to keep the brightness in my watercolors. The opaques almost never serve me in mixtures, because it quickly gets chalky colors, dull or even muddy. Therefore,...

That's it, I leave my comfort zone. Yes, the three colors that make up this triad have no place on my palette every day. Payne's gray contains black and dulls a transparent watercolor and the burnt Sienna is semi-opaque. For those who know me it's enough...

And we progress in the discovery of the triads ... Today we change the register. No more blue or yellow or red, but the 3 secondary, orange, purple and green. It's quite confusing, because we do not easily opt for a palette without primary ... This triad...

And it goes on, here I am in my fourth triad ... to realize this landscape of an old bridge. This watercolor, made in less than an hour, represents an old bridge "A Coquille" on Aigue-Brun in Bonnieux in the Lubéron in the South of France. Here I used...