Saturday, August 9, 2008

A study in shading in watercolor class


Saw her sketches of shoes in "This disordered life" blog and it reminded me of my piece from watercolor class 1999. I used flipflops and a well worn sandal of mine. We had to concentrate on shading and picking up color from a piece of still life. I found water color to be hard and unforgiving. Yet I always loved this piece of reflected orange on the wall.

11 comments:

notmassproduced said...

hey - lovely flip flop watercolour - reminds me of my holiday :o)

mcdc3s said...

Hi, Thanks for visiting my blog! BTW... just in case you were confused, I am Maralena (you mentioned Nicci) - aka: mcdc3s. Nicci and I are doing the sketchbook swap together. The site you visited (my link) is my blog! heh heh. Thank you for coming by... now I'm off to look though your blog!

mcdc3s said...

Haha! Done, I've added your link and yes you certainly may add mine.

mcdc3s - Maralena Howard

lynne h said...

hi joy, this piece is lovely... the reflection of the orange strap is my favorite part. or maybe it's the heel of the other sandal... hard to decide. : )

Leslie said...

You may have found watercolors difficult to deal with, but you sure did a great job with this!

couragetocreatewriteandlove said...

thank you for the inspiration, I have to try this ;-)

kate said...

Gentle and peaceful...kind of like melting into summer. I love the subtle background which reminds me of a concrete or plaster wall. Perhaps in Greece or some other exotic locale?

Linda O'Neill said...

I love this one, Joy. It's very "abstracty" too which makes it even more interesting. Nice work!

Anonymous said...

Yes the orange is brilliant.

GalleryJuana said...

I love how this turned out. Some of my favorite colors too.

Cory said...

I love this piece...good composition too. You should do more watercolors.

Cory