Monday, November 23, 2020

Lighthouse Painting Using Line and Wash

 

I've been looking forward to using a line and wash technique to paint a lighthouse. I found an image perfect for this in the book, "Watercolor With Me in the Ocean," by Dana Fox. This is one of the three books she wrote on watercolor painting.

As usual I traced the iconic image and transferred it to my watercolor paper with the help of my light box.

When doing the line and wash, the process begins with sketching the subject in ink before applying quick, light washes of color to it. I used a Micron ink pen to trace over my pencil lines before I applied the watercolors. I used Winsor and Newton Cotman tubes on 140 lb cold press Canson watercolor paper for this painting.

Challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2020/11/november-2020-challenge-anything-goes.html

https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/11/world-wide-open-design-team-challenge.html 

http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-bit-more-time-to-craft-128-challenge.html

4 comments:

Jean said...

Wonderful painting ! So fresh looking Thanks for sharing at 613 Avenue Create xx Please join us again.
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Annettes Hobby Rosettes said...

You are going well with your new projects.
This is absolutely gorgeous. I love it. Nice work.
Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.

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Chana Malkah said...

Congratulations! You were selected as a Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create for the week of November 22 - 28, 2020! Thanks so much for your awesome submission to our challenge! Please stop by our blog to grab your badge!

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Wendy Ann Batchen said...

Lovely Carla. Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.

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