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Thursday, September 17, 2009

artistic conversions

I thought you might be interested in seeing how photography inspires me. I am not good at painting from memory or fantasy, but I do enjoy enhancing and changing the colors of real things in my paintings. Here is an example of a smoky pumpkin which I found beautiful and was immediately inspired to paint. You can see that I stayed true to form, but perked the colors up a little.


2 comments:

  1. Beautiful - do you use masking fluid with your watercolours to get the white gaps or do you have a very delicate hand (unlike me... :() xxx

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  2. Thanks Curious Cat! I leave the white gaps by hand. I use very thin brushes and love to get really detailed.
    xo

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