All the art I have chosen for inspiration is representational. With a strong focus on watercolours and clouds. Yet, at least half of the art on our walls at home is abstract!! It's ok to like many different things. Or maybe what we have on our walls is a reflection of what we both like, versus what I alone like. I wonder?
Anyways, it will be no surprise to most of you that the first artist I have chosen to steal from is Uma Kelkar. She is a contemporary watercolour artist, and I love everything she paints, in particular her big skies.
I found that it wasn't so easy to achieve the effects that look effortless in her paintings. I am not surprised. I will just have to keep at it!
This is from the same photos I used last week, just decided to paint in portrait format so I could give the sky more space. All very dramatic. I think there is some Moonglow, Lavender and also some Phthalo blue in there. I might add a layer to get rid of those light splodges in the cloud band?
Here is how the first layer looked.
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