Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Barbados Stairway II, 30 in 30 - Day 21

Barbados Stairway II
Image size 11" x 15"
poured watercolor

This is the last of the three poured paintings I started last week.  I've painted this photo before several years ago using oil.  That one was done on a long, skinny canvas which really enhanced the sense of climbing but I wanted to do this one in a more traditional format.

Here is a picture of the first one I did:

10 comments:

  1. I love your treatment of the steps! I liked the original one too, but this painting seems to have more life

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    1. I think that "life" comes from the poured pigments. They give a painting a special glow.

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  2. I loved this when you painted it the first time and I love it now. I think I like the bluish tones in the bricks on the new piece especially...It lends an air of ethereal to the piece, which is a sense I get anyway from the stairs going up to a doorway with no walls or roof around it...as if it is a remnant of a long gone castle or something!

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  3. Thank you Sherry. I also like the door in the middle of nowhere.

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  4. The pouring really gave that painting a new life. Too me it is way more exciting. Love it.

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    1. Thank you Wendy. I like the look of poured paintings.

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  5. Wonderful work, Nancy. I love the dark greens by the steps... Excellent watercolor!!!

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  6. I like your handling of this pouring technique - it creates vibrancy so hoping to see more of it. I see you have tags on your pictures - where do you add those in and why?

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  7. Thank you Nelvia. The tags are added for google to use in the search engines and you add them by clicking on the 'labels' button at the right of the screen when you are doing your post.

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