It “ain’t heavy; it’s my watercolor.”
Florida fresh water canals are many colors. Closer to the ocean, this one has more aqua colors…more pale blue greens.
Florida floral landscape often burst off the reds. Sometimes these are native Floridian plants. It is a real pleasure to find the native plants and watch them thrive in their own soil and present gifts to birds and bees alike.
My piece of art is 9″ x 12″ of excellent artist grade Arches Cold Pressed Watercolor paper. Applying the Russian Yarkan brand watercolor, their opaque watercolor spread keeps color strong. I can’t use the luscious original oil colors anymore: my nose burnt out from the mineral spirits and I can’t detect aroma. If anyone comes to my home and eats my cooking, they know I am correct. I can’t cook but beans. So I got back to painting.
I find the application of the Yarkan color heavy. They are nearly gouache, their French cousins. However the opacity, they do have sparkle of crystal pigment.
Pigment is the actual color the artist is asking to move around the page in various medium. The purer the pigment, the more satisfactory the color is to the human eye. Maybe to the creature eye too. I’ve only read studies on reviewing art for the structure of the human eye.
Returning to painting after a long hiatus of work-time-only, this piece is satisfying. Not rated as my best but I give it credit…a 2.5 out of 4, for composition and purposeful placement of colors. I don’t have to have aces on my first time out. Learning the enjoyment again of digging my pastels into the colorful crevicing pools in the gorgeous watercolor page’s topical landscape geology is the return to the proper joy of simple things.