Day 20 : #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 : Broken Silhouette
June 20, 2018
I’m stretching yesterday’s mini-sketches into the second day, by giving you some step-by-step of this broken silhouette.
By the way – by my count, that’s 22/30 paintings on day 20! So we are even a little ahead of target!
How is everyone else doing?
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Citizen Sketcher 
I really like seeing the in progress pictures. :)
Dead even after 19 days, went on to second sketchbook, this one is filled with Shizen rough paper. tried a portrait with it and its too rough to hold that kind of detail.. should be good to drybrush landscapes has a lot of texture to it. Never used rough before so whole new media
Seeing this series of paintings has really been an ” education” and has brought to life the lessons in you wonderful new book on direct painting. Thanks so much!
I love this series of progress photos!
Thank you so much for the education along with the wonderful paintings! It helps with the visualization process.
Thanks for this series showing your progressive steps. I especially like the shaft of sunlight on the building….stunning! I also like how clean and crisp your colors are. The green of trees beyond the building are luscious.
Took some liberties with the architecture, eh!
Hah! Yes, – I am sure I’m agonizing architects everywhere! But when it’s for fun, I can’t be bothered about perfection :) Plus – I always like to say – the further you get from your subject, the better the drawing looks. When I’m back home, I doesn’t matter what it really looked like :)
I missed this challenge from the beginning, and since you are one of my idols, I will need to come up with approaches that will work for me. So far, it’s all mush. I cannot stop drawing people since the 100 people challenge, though. So you’ve changed my life in some ways. I owe you a huge debt of gratitude. Both you and Liz Steel. Thank you thank you thank you!!
Yesterday I tryed to paint the clock tower in Old Montreal, but I didn’t succed to paint a nice sky arround the white tower because there was a lot of brush marks near the tower. How can I do that nicely?