Frozen Trees

Here's yesterday's work, 7.5x5.5 watercolor with white wax crayon accents on Arches 140 lb cold press paper.  Using no reference and no pencil, I drew linear marks both horizontal and vertical on dry paper, then put in neutral washes of raw umber, Prussian blue, sepia, and carbazole violet.  Negative painting was the focus of riverbank tree trunks, branches, and limbs hanging over icy waters.
(c) Kay Smith 2014

Mt. Fork River

Last summer I was out plein air with friends around the rivers of Arkansas. Interesting place.

This is the Fork River in watercolor.

So my quest is to be able to paint landscapes in watercolor.

Getting closser I think Carole