I am a watercolorist from the Pacific Northwest. I tend to post painting studies, sketches, photos and occasionally studio pieces in progress. To see my completed work you can visit my watercolor website at www.michaeldavidsorensen.com
Saturday, January 08, 2011
The Explorers
The Explorers 22"x30" Watercolor
I've been updating my art website. You can see a bunch of new originals that I put on my website here.
Hi Michael- I came across your work online and I love your work and admire your talent for color, shape, and layering. I am a highschool art teacher and practice a bit of watercolor myself. In this painting, your trees turn into negative space which I love. If you don't mind sharing, how do you achieve that? with masking fluid?
Hi, Sorry for the slow reply. I mostly post to facebook and Pinterest so I don't check for comments here very often any more.
At any rate, I just paint the negative space around the tree branches. I haven't used masking fluid for several years, although the same effect could be achieved using masking fluid or by drawing in the negative shapes that you wish to paint ahead of time. I had a college drawing teacher that challenged us to make a drawing by only drawing the negative shapes and I discovered that I liked paying attention to both positive and negative shapes in drawings and painting. I have since tried to include attention to both in subsequent paintings. How you achieve negative shape painting is more of a matter of preference I think.
The Explorers 22"x30" Watercolor
2 comments:
Hi Michael-
I came across your work online and I love your work and admire your talent for color, shape, and layering.
I am a highschool art teacher and practice a bit of watercolor myself. In this painting, your trees turn into negative space which I love. If you don't mind sharing, how do you achieve that? with masking fluid?
Thank you-
Jen
jnvanwas@gmail.com
Hi, Sorry for the slow reply. I mostly post to facebook
and Pinterest
so I don't check for comments here very often any more.
At any rate, I just paint the negative space around the tree branches. I haven't used masking fluid for several years, although the same effect could be achieved using masking fluid or by drawing in the negative shapes that you wish to paint ahead of time. I had a college drawing teacher that challenged us to make a drawing by only drawing the negative shapes and I discovered that I liked paying attention to both positive and negative shapes in drawings and painting. I have since tried to include attention to both in subsequent paintings. How you achieve negative shape painting is more of a matter of preference I think.
Good luck and happy painting! :-)
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