Topic 1: The Old Man and the Sea... and some Jesus... and bad grammar (sorry, I feel like I have tons of tenses everywhere)
I have recently just finished my first Hemingway text, The Old Man and the Sea. As a gal who just started working in the real world, this book compelled me. The old man: spending days alone, waiting and waiting for something that may or may not happen - yet he is bound and determined to live in the present throughout the entire book. My take on it: I have expectations for my future that I want God to fulfill and I'm waiting on Him, but I want to live abundantly in the here and now and let God conform me into the image of Christ.
Topic 2: The more I watercolor, the less I know about watercolor.
I did this one based off of The Watercolorist's Answer Book. This technique was 'Mastering the Gradated Wash'. They asked for two colors I have never heard of before: brown madder and new gamboge... didn't have either one of those, so I discovered a site called wetcanvas.com that had people who knew all of these amazing things about paints and the chemical makeup of different colors and their values... and I was able to substitute brown madder by mixing burnt umber with alizarin crimson; and the gamboge... I really don't remember the name of the colors I mixed... um.... bright yellow and dark yellow to get a bold opaque yellow... yeah.... :)Here's the first one I took in the shade:
And this one I took with the sunset shining on it.
Which one do you like better?
I like them both so it is hard to choose but I am leaning toward the sunset one. I'm glad you're painting!
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm leaning toward the sunset one as well. I'm enjoying myself, doing these paintings!
DeleteYou are SO talented! Love you!
ReplyDeleteThank you, darlin'!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Uhm, I like the one you took in the sunset, here's why: The actual painting is of a sunset, and photographically/paintiatically (or whatever word I am supposed to say) you want to make the oranges more "firey" and the blues deeper and richer. So the warm sunset light enhanced the oranges of your painting, while not detracting from the blues too much. Actually it gives the blues a pinkish tint, which I like. This is the same reason photographers put a tinted piece of glass in front of their lens when they are shooting sunsets.
ReplyDeleteAll this to say, the second :)
~Isaiah Mitchell
I agree! I didn't know that about the photo lenses!
DeletePlease forgive my terrible spelling/grammar :)
ReplyDeletePSHH, I ain't judgin'
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