Good morning #ArtAdventCalendar! Today we’re looking at my latest effort to portray mist in watercolor. I love how it turned out! #watercolor #art #painting #landscapeart - ThreadSky

andrewswatercolor.bsky.social • 89 days ago

Good morning #ArtAdventCalendar! Today we’re looking at my latest effort to portray mist in watercolor. I love how it turned out!

#watercolor #art #painting #landscapeart

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jgillm.bsky.social•89 days ago

I really like how you created the mist, but I also really enjoyed your ALT text description!

whitneyyoh.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is amazing. You captured it beautifully. My brain is busy trying to figure out how you did this.

andrewswatercolor.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thanks! Main thing is starting with the whole thing wet and putting in the rows of trees as blurry mixed greens. The misty bits were left pretty white. I threw a lot of water into those areas to shove pigment around in more interesting ways. I let that dry and added the detailed trees last

whitneyyoh.bsky.social•89 days ago

I can only hope to one day have as much control with this medium as you show here. Still struggling with wet on wet. Practice makes progress though 🤷🏻‍♀️. Thank you for sharing your process 😊

kabbagepatch.bsky.social•89 days ago

Omg so good

elizabethjsays.bsky.social•78 days ago

Wonderful, Andrew!!

mxjpfineart.bsky.social•89 days ago

The effect is great! How big is the painting?

andrewswatercolor.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thanks! It’s kinda a small one at around 11.5”x8.5”. I like to use scans and prints to enlarge them later if the original is that small

mxjpfineart.bsky.social•89 days ago

I was just curious. When I've tried to create mist in my watercolour paintings they've also been quite small. I just wondered if at larger scale you find it just as east to create that softness. It can be a tricky thing to do.

andrewswatercolor.bsky.social•89 days ago

No idea yet, haha. This was on kinda “bad” paper as I’d failed the mad man’s dance of wet-on-wet quite a few times before this one. Trying to portray most still seems so fragile. Maybe it’s me, but I feel like the tiniest things shatter the illusion

mxjpfineart.bsky.social•89 days ago

I agree, it's a really difficult thing to portray the illusion of mist in watercolour. I find using a really robust heavy cotton paper works well with the lifting - a lot of other papers disintegrate. And then, trying to avoid hard outlines is another struggle with multiple lifts and washes.