Hello to all. Here is another watercolor that I did as a demonstration for my winter watercolor class at Cape Cod Museum of Art. As I write this blog, I hope to help the reader understand my thought process as I paint. I wanted to do a painting with reflections in it.I always knew to make reflections one shade darker than what is reflected. But artist ,Charles Sovek taught me that the exception is black. Its reflection is one shade lighter.
I also wanted to paint a building to show that if you slope the roof a little in an older structure, that it makes it more charming. My architect husband taught me this. NEVER have it arching up! My greens are made with Prussian blue and lemon yellow without titanium nickel. And when I want to dull the green, I add a little cadmium red, but only a little in some places. I always add red to the green to the paper and never to the palette. This helps keep the greens from getting muddy!
