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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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I'd like to describe for you my own process of making an expressionist watercolour painting, starting with a drawing sketched from life.
Drawings, sketches or mark-making often seems to show the artist's personality more than their paintings.
The way the pencil or pen is used to describe the landscape are very revealing and show the kind of processes that are at work within the artist.

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Most of my drawings involve summing up my direct feelings about whatever it is I am going to paint.
Visually summing up a view from an artist perspective for me, means drawing those lines essential to your understanding of what makes up the view.
Establishing a composition, I draw those lines as they strike me, according to their visual importance, making some lines heavier than others and emphasizing certain lines.
What I end up with is a guideline for a painting - an interpretation of the view, with important lines shown within a balanced structure.

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Normally, I am after only the essentials and will add more to a sketch if there are details I have seen which will add something to a painting.
Very often, I will attempt to remember colours and textures of a view and use them later when it comes to painting, sometimes I will take a photo of the scene to remind me of all the details.
Once I have a drawing I am excited by, represents my true feelings about what I have just seen, I will usually return to the studio, content that I have a drawing to go on for a watercolour painting.


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The sketch is put beside me on my table and I will select my paper, materials etc. I usually start by mentally reminding myself of the experience of being back at the scene, using the sketch to prompt me.
Then I will start painting, working on whatever I have the most certainty about in the picture.
The brush marks I make are personal responses to what I have seen and also take into account what is happening within the watercolour - to end up with a balanced picture.
Colour, texture and varieties of marks then take the sketch much further to create a fuller statement about the subject.

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In essence, the watercolour painting has a life of its own and the foundations of the drawing are fleshed out by marks coming from personal memory, experience and knowledge of what I have seen in the view.
All the qualities of painting are used to serve a subjective, personal response to reality, prompted by a drawing.
I hope to make the watercolour painting as fresh, new and lively as possible, sometimes abandoning many attempts, working until what I am left with is strong enough to be left - where it feels right.

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