POTW #13

Carnlough Bay from Glenarm

The Antrim coast road is truly uniquely beautiful

POTW #12

POTW #11

POTW #10

While I’ve been gone…

My brother and his wife just had another little baby boy! So that’s why I’ve not been around much

Hopefully I’ll have pictures up tomorrow night, and I promise I’ll get back into regular blogging just as soon as I can pull myself away from tiny fingers and toes!

POTW #9

Painting inspired by “View of Honmoku off Kanagawa”

I love the work of Katsushika Hokusai, as you may have already noticed.  I found a fantastic resource  today - http://www.katsushikahokusai.org - which displays his complete works.

One print in particular caught my eye:

 

I loved the dynamic waves and was inspired to attempt and produce my version.

I quicklytraced (again, I’m a bad girl) the basic outline and, much like the last wave painting, I filled in the waves with felt tip.

 

Here, I started to fill in over the felt tip with watercolour, and roughly plastered (pretty accurate verb for this!) a wash in over the sky.  I was unhappy with the colour of the sky, but waited until it dried to try and fix it.

 

 

I fixed the sky, and then made a huge mistake with the hills to the left of the picture.  I didn’t want to have the level of detail which was in the original picture, as I felt it would distract from the waves.  So, hills need fixing….

However! I did the waves all purty! I decided the white foam was too much of a contrast in the inside ‘sloping’ part of the wave, so applied a green wash and highlighted with blue.  I think it looks cool, but it probably won’t appeal to everyone.

You might also notice my wee birdies have disappeared from the sky =\(I still need to paint them in tomorrow)

 

The finished thing! (for the moment)

I fixed the hill with blue, dark blue, and black.  I’m not entirely happy with the hill but it’s an improvement on the previous incarnation! I also highlighted the foam on the waves and some parts of the boat with black.

Not too bad for a rush job!