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| Patio Flowers, by Emily Weil ink and watercolor Stillman & Birns Sketchbook, Zeta series, 7.5 x 7.5 " |
How lucky am I to be taking a few individual art lessons
with the talented artist Emily Weil this month.
For our first lesson last week, we decided I would watch her
paint. I wanted to know how she would approach a photo I’d taken last summer of
two pots of flowers. (See my Patio Friends and Patio Friends 2 for my own painted
versions).
What fun to watch her work. Using her Sailor calligraphy fountain
pen, she quickly drew some basic lines and then jumped right in with a triad of
Daniel Smith watercolors, both mixed and direct (quinacridone magenta, hansa
yellow medium, and phthalo blue, green shade). She uses this triad often as a
basic foundation for her watercolor paintings because she feels it lends
cohesiveness to her work. She also added quinacridone coral.
With a large, round brush she dropped washes here and there,
first in the lower left table foreground, then moving on to the flowers, the
leaves, then the background on the top right. After the painting dried she
added color to the background fence, then final touches of color.
One more short drying session, then a few white circles and lines added with a
white acrylic marker because she felt the composition had become too dark. Ta
da! – this lovely painting.
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