Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Texture Sunflower Watercolor, Maria Kovalenko Leysens




We needed to loosen up in my adult watercolor class so we did some very loose sunflower under paintings on quarter sheet watercolor paper. Then took some tissue paper and 50% water/mod podge mixture to glue the tissue paper (some use rice paper) down controlling the wrinkles. Then painted over the dried tissue paper with washes and color, letting drips and the color settle where it wanted to. It is hard to let go sometimes and just let it happen. We were feeling the sunflowers, not painting details. Does that make sense? A good lesson.
Below is the Heinz factory in Pittsburgh that I used this technique on from a while ago.


4 comments:

Sue Marrazzo Fine Art said...

I do like the free feeling in the flowers...Nice to see your use of collage...Paper adds so much texture. NICE WORK, Maria!!!

Deborah Nell said...

Those sunflowers are gorgeous. Beautful work.

Mary Beth Brath said...

Great post Maria. It is good to see the Heinz plant also!

Claire Beadon Carnell said...

Such creative, beautiful work, Maria! I always love to see what you have been up to.