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Sep 3, 2014
Media: Watercolor on Arches #140 Cold Press Paper
Size: 5x9 in
Second day's painting for Leslie Saeta's September 2014 "30 Paintings in 30 Days" challenge - I've started a couple of landscapes today but only finished this one. I have not painted this wet for a while - with paper dripping with water and the painting elevated at a steep angle, every passage is an exhilarating yet scary race against time. My aim is to finish the entire painting in one wet-to-dry cycle, getting the background mountains in when the paper is soaking wet so that the colors would run and diffuse smoothly, then putting in the fall foliage and darker shrub colors in denser pigments as the paper gradually dries to a matte finish. However, it turned out that controlling wet pigments to create interesting yet identifiable shapes are never easy, and I ended up wetting the paper three times before getting the shapes the way I wanted. The calligraphy of tree branches, dark roof and windows of the white-walled village houses came last, when the paper is almost dry. I love the mood of this little painting -- quiet, peaceful with just a tad bit of nostalgia. I could not help but remembering the tucked-away little village my paternal grandmother used to live in the Sichuan province of China when painting it... I can almost smell the moist mountain air in a slightly drizzling autumn morning. It is my happy place.
Second day's painting for Leslie Saeta's September 2014 "30 Paintings in 30 Days" challenge - I've started a couple of landscapes today but only finished this one. I have not painted this wet for a while - with paper dripping with water and the painting elevated at a steep angle, every passage is an exhilarating yet scary race against time. My aim is to finish the entire painting in one wet-to-dry cycle, getting the background mountains in when the paper is soaking wet so that the colors would run and diffuse smoothly, then putting in the fall foliage and darker shrub colors in denser pigments as the paper gradually dries to a matte finish. However, it turned out that controlling wet pigments to create interesting yet identifiable shapes are never easy, and I ended up wetting the paper three times before getting the shapes the way I wanted. The calligraphy of tree branches, dark roof and windows of the white-walled village houses came last, when the paper is almost dry. I love the mood of this little painting -- quiet, peaceful with just a tad bit of nostalgia. I could not help but remembering the tucked-away little village my paternal grandmother used to live in the Sichuan province of China when painting it... I can almost smell the moist mountain air in a slightly drizzling autumn morning. It is my happy place.
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