Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Familiar Scenes
Many times when painting en plein air, artists return to old haunts and well known scenes. I have sometimes felt bored and frustrated that I am forced to return to a site I have painted many, many times before.
The challenge is to paint it in a new way, or from a slightly different angle or to use different colors.
You can also take a close-up view or a long view. A bird's eye view or a worm's eye view. This repetition forces us to re-think the approach and what we want to convery about an old subject.
I've painted this fountain in Bayfront Plaza here in Naples four or five times. This time I decided to take the long view. The surrounding architecture is always interesting to me, so this time I decided to include it. The fountain is still the star, but the supporting actors of building, palm trees, street lights and distant statue were all interesting to me.
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