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Subject: "The bridge"
 
 
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11. "RE: The bridge"
 
You beat my efforts by far. I would have smeared the background into the bridge. You've kept it very clean.

How much longer do you think it'll take until you're done?

--JT

Let all you do be done with kindness and love


12. "RE: The bridge"
 
Hey itoy, you are doing a great job it looks exellent.

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
St Fancis of Assisi


13. "RE: The bridge"
 
Thanks Bella. JT I really don't know when I would be able to finish this piece but I know I'm gonna do it all the way for this is commissioned. The problem with as I explained it before is that I usually take a time off during doing a piece. It has been a couple of weeks now that I haven't touch my brush, but I usually give the option to my clients that I work according to my mood and that I don't force my self to the extend of ruining the painting and they understand. To tell you the truth my wife called me weired cause I can't draw when somebody is around, well I told her that the great masters were also weired for they have their own characteristics when they draw. Anyway even my self is trying to look forward to finishing this in a couple of weeks. Thanks and God bless.

itoy


14. "RE: The bridge"
 
Here's the latest....





15. "RE: The bridge"
 
Hi Itoy,

I am sorry I haven't seen your message sooner. It's been awhile since I have been here...

Anyway, I think you did a great job so far for someone who has never touched watercolor!

( By the way, which WC paper are you using? And which paints, brand etc?)

I have nothing much to say about the bridge and the background trees: they work beautifully together, there is a great contrast / action going on there. I would maybe warm up a bit the wood on the bridge in the area near us with maybe a hint of a warmer value. (Near us... warmer; farther ... coolest). Check the colour of the part of the bridge that goes from one side to the other (just under the bridge), it is the same colour and resolution from one side to another. It shouldn't because of perspective. One way to correct that is by modifying a bit the color.

One technique to do that is by a glaze (like in oil): prepare a mix of very light orange and a mix of very light blue. Then glaze the part near us with orange and about on the middle of the bridge without letting the orange dry pick your blue and go on glazing till the other side.

Be careful with the shrubs, plants that we can see under and behind the bridge (near the water), they should'nt be as detailed as the ones on the right because they are away from the onlooker point of view. If you want to increase the feeling of perspective, they have to be less detailed, and maybe with cooler values.

Now about the reflection in the water... that's never easy. I see that you are working dry on dry. Sometimes reflections work better wet on wet, ie, firt you lay a soft wash of your main water colour (no pun!), then while it's still wet you drop hints of the objects reflected in the water (with exactly the same colors /mixes that you have used for these objects).

A suggestion, vary your greens, for instance, I see that the green in the foreground and at the end of the bridge is almost the same... Make it darker in the foreground, drop hints of warm in the green near us and cooler in the distance. Green always look better when they have their complements (red) near them.

I think I have said it all... Please don't hesitate to ask if you have doubts about that. I promise I am going to check this thread till you are finished!

Anne-Claire Tavares
http://www.studio224.com/


16. "RE: The bridge"
 
Wow itoy, I'm enjoying the updates on this, seeing it come together ......great so far, looking forward to seeing it finished....
Lynne

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Nature is not something that can be seen by the eye alone- it lies also within the soul, in pictures seen by the inner eye.
-Munch


17. "RE: The bridge"
 
Here's another long overdue update on this piece,

itoy
http://itoy12.tripod.com/2





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