Winter Sunset

Watercolour 32 x 25 cms. Winter Sunset after SusanH photo.

Australian Natives

Australian Natives
Jo Sonja gouache, Size 38 x 53 cms on 150grm Cartridge paper, used WN acrylic sealer on finished painting.
This has been a work in progress for quite a few days, and it is quite obvious why…too many details. I was trying a different approach to using acrylics, in that spraying with water and letting the colours run, wanting a achieve that looser effect of watercolours & loose the fairly solid appearance of traditional gouache paintings... yet keep the colour brightness .. avoid the “muddy appearance” …. I seemed to have always ended up with when using acrylics & white., in many instance I substituted the warm white with other tonally lighter colours to achieve stroke variations & highlights.

Winter Scene_SH FB

A combined excercise among friends on FB. Practising simplification, looseness, and tones. Fairly limited pallet for me WC.38 x 28 cms. Left a bench next to the tree out, because I felt it would stop the eye going into the distance.

Norwegian Rosemaling Stool

Norwegian Rosemaling Stool .. for that little personJoSonja Acrylic Gouache, satin sealer on top

Winter Scene

Watercolour 38 x 28 cms
Susan Hall had a wonderful winter scene photo ... I loved it...Maybe painting it could be a way to escape the horrible heat in OZ.... .
Thank you Susan
P.S. the pine trees let me down.

Greetings from the Australian Bush

 Watercolour 28 x 38 cms
 Australian Natives - Hakea, Banksia, Warratah, Gumnuts, grass tree, wattles, bottlebrush.... I.purposefully stressed the background to imitate the  bush background
Watercolour 28 x 38 cms ... this is a present for a lovely friend who helped me many a time when in need.

La Spezia, Cinque Terre - 5 Lands, Corniglia Island

2 photos combined.  Watercolour 26 x 36 cms
Not proud of this one.... 2 photos combined from Corniglia island, Cinque Terre (5 Lands) Italy