Well - I actually got back from New Orleans on Saturday afternoon - but for some reason it takes me a day to recover - then a couple more to catch back up any time I am out of town.
I went to New Orleans with fellow painter Carla Myane - who is a wonderful watercolorist from Lockesburg, Arkansas. We went to a workshop with Linda Kemp who works in a method of painting in the negative. This really requires some thinking - You paint around the item to create the image - looks really cool and somewhat abstract - It is really more my style - it is more than just a pretty picture... more about design elements.
Here are a couple of photos of Linda demonstrating. The first photo is of the underpainting with just a little of the layering of the negative spaces.
This next photo is a little further along in the process - more negative spaces identified - and more if the image is built.
Someday I promise I will get this photo insertion down a little better so they are the same size!!!!
Anyway - If you are interested in this technique - Linda's Book is Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines published by Northlight Books.
more about New Orleans - later
mj
