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Shoreline
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| Medium: |
Water colour |
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Paper |
| Year: |
2008 |
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Second place - monthly qualifier of McClelland Guild Artists, "Artist of the Year" competition (September 2008) |
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If anyone had asked me several months ago if I was a watercolourist I would have had a definite answer of no. I usually labour over water colours and the result is a stiff look with very poor washes. This time I managed to relax and enjoy the process. The result was very different, so different that I showed it at McClelland Guild of Artists with very good results. |
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Given this it may sound strange that after several demonstrations at the McClelland Guild of Artists showing how to be brave with this medium, I decided to give it a try. First came the deep breaths and attempts to relax and enjoy myself, then came the subjects that I have recently photographed, which screamed at me to do them in water colour. |
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So with the sound of Rod Stuart's American Songbooks in the studio I ventured into a new world. I started with a few simple subjects, wild birds, some plants from the garden, washes over sketches, then with a monthly demo looming covering seascapes in water colour, I spent a lovely afternoon on my first seascape in this medium. To my amazement my husband said it is one of the best seascapes I have ever done. Even better was that it came second at the September (2008) meeting of the McClelland Guild of Artists. (I am now jokingly accused of making this a habit as the is the third second place in successive months!) I am definitely going to keep doing more work in water colour - it was fun, relaxing, fairly quick to do and contrary to my previous thoughts, I seem to be OK at it. |
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35 cm (width) × 21 cm (height), (includes mounting board and frame) |
| Ownership: |
Artist |
| Credit: |
Original photography by Janice Mills. |
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