Come to The Edge 1-3

Come to the Edge, 1-3.  Watercolor & Crayon
Each about 6 x 3 inches.

I'm really enjoying doing watercolors on hot press and then going back over with some crayon.  It's kind of therapeutic.  You can see more sets I've done like this here, here, and here.

You can see the original paint I laid down on Instagram, here.  I like the colors.

The title is from a quote by Guillaume Apollinaire:

Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.

Paint--nickel azo yellow, carbazole violet, cobalt teal, an indanthrone blue
Paper--300 lb hot press Fabriano.

Flash in the Pan

Flash in the Pan.  Watercolor & Crayon.
Three paintings, each about 6.5 x 5 inches.

Working on 300 lb hot press paper again, where the whole idea is to get an abstract out of a set of watercolors.  The underlying colors are perinone orange, cobalt, indigo, and quin pink.  The crayon over the top is a blue, gray, and pink.  Here's what they looked like in progress--I probably went a little dark with the watercolor....

Set of Four Abstracts

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Four Abstracts.  Watercolor and Crayon.
Each approximately 4 inches square.

 A while ago, I started working on some small abstracts, and I matted them all up, and boom, sold them.  So, being sneaky, or not interested in accumulating a bajillion pieces of art in my basement, I thought I'd see if I could get that magic going again.

These pieces are on hot press, which takes the crayon, well, it's awesome.  You can see the first cut of watercolors here.  It's isoindoline yellow, lemon yellow, and phthalo blue rs.  The crayon over the top is an intense yellow green, gray, and a tiny bit of deep red.

A side note--getting all the images organized in blogger?  It wasn't working.  I highly recommend a website (app?) called canva.  Very useful.

Blue/Orange/Gray: Developing Some Abstracts

Blue/Orange/Gray.  Watercolor and Crayon.
Approximately 3.5 x 3 inches.

Last weekend I sat down and started painting (or doodling) with a limited palette on hot press paper. Hot press, of course, is super smooth.  It handles the paint very differently than cold press or rough--it almost seems as if it's a race to get the paint to stay fluid on the paper.  And, if you ask me, the colors look different when they are dry--different in a way that's more chalky than if I was painting on one of the other types of watercolor paper.  This is just my opinion--I honestly don't paint on this type of paper frequently, and am not doing any kind of systematic study.

Today, I took one of the paintings and finished it with a crayon overlay.  Finished piece above.  Can  you tell which one it was?  Yeah, too stripey with a weird growth.  It's the second abstract I've finished with that blue.  You can see the first HERE.  I should probably finish all five so that they're interconnected by color, yes?

Cobalt blue, quin burnt orange, quin red, and undersea green (all daniel smith) and overlaid with light blue and light gray caran d'ache crayon.

Four Abstracts.  Watercolor.
Each approximately 3 inches square.

This Too; A Gift

This Too; A Gift.  Watercolor and Crayon
About 25 x 17 inches.