Walton Watermedia Workshop Experience

Mixed Media by Leada Wood ©

This is my Monday paintiing...it also has texture stamped around the paper and then left to dry. We chose a non-representational photo and painted the shapes and colors in. I think we used only two colors plus black and white. I painted everything in very quickly EXCEPT for the little rectangle on the right...it took until Friday to get it like it needed to be! I enjoyed the Asian feel and colors of this piece, a very abstract landscape.

Walton Watermedia Workshop Experience

Mixed Media by Leada Wood ©

This is another Walton Experience. I put random texure down with different objects all over the paper and let it dry. We then chose three colors and placed them on wet paper and let that dry. We then had to paint negatively around our What with a dark rich color to make our What (focal Point) stand out. I left some of my underpainting textures travel around the painting and then tucked and found more shapes and textures until I was tuckered out and called it finished!

Walton Watermedia Workshop Experience



Mixed Media by Leada Wood ©

Well hooray! I finally have internet after nearly three weeks! So I thought I would share my painting from the Walton Experience. This one was taken from a photograph that was non representational. I put texture on the paper first and let it dry and then in 20 minutes I laid down a lot of paint so much that Douglas came by and grabbed my spray water bottle and put down about a 1/4 inch of water on top of the paint and told me to leave it alone while he did his demo. When I came back wonderful magic had happened! This is the end result. I guess sometimes I spend way too much time on a painting and work it to death. I enjoyed the workshop so much! It was a wonderful bunch of women and a fantastic time painting! The week passed too quickly as usual but I learned so much in that short time. Douglas is a wonderful instructor and we are so lucky to have him come to Big Spring every year.