Watercolor Week 5

Rhythm painting.  Of all the stuff my teacher does this is my favorite.  To look at, that is.  We tried it out for a week and I was HORRIBLE!  I’m so embarrassed to even post my work.  I’ll start off by showing one of my teachers paintings-

This beauty is done by my teacher Jana Parkin, click on the image to check out more of her work!

This is what rhythm painting is supposed to look like.  The idea is to quickly capture the visual rhythms of a location.  Look how in just a few strokes she can make the grass in the background flow in the wind, the trunks of the trees look sturdier and are firmly planted there in the ground.  You focus on brush stroke, following the feel of each object, and allow that feeling to define your painting, rather than little details.  She does a painting like this in just a couple hours.

This, sadly, is my piece.  How embarrassing!  Luckily the whole class had a hard time with this.  It’s hard to paint fast when you’re just learning!  We only had about an hour at each location.  (we went to three different places this week.. but I won’t horrify you with all three of my paintings!  I feel like a 3rd grader went in my place when I look at those!)  I think I’d like to retry this assignment but give myself an afternoon.  I feel like I was so rushed that I didn’t give myself time to think about what to do.  I’ll let you know if I make any progress on these- the real deal really is beautiful if you can pull it off!