Sunday, March 27, 2011

Larger than life this time

They say you can't fix mistakes in watercolor, but this is not quite true. In addition to various means of making minor corrections, such as scrubbing, blotting, and scratching off color, you can also make more drastic changes using a little technique I like to call "starting over."

Okay, this doesn't always get a laugh among non-artists, but thanks anyway. In the case of today's painting, I started over in order to make it larger, and to change the subject's body pose downward to a (hopefully) more dramatic angle, accentuating the weight of the key.

I'm almost finished...