Small Watercolors

Here are some small watercolor paintings that I painted on a new watercolor paper, that I wanted to experiment with.

Watercolors can give you tough time if out of practice. Nevertheless, loved painting these.  

Sparkle

At the start of this painting,I thought this was going to be one quick piece of work.But,can my prediction ever be right? No! It took me two long days to come up with a finished piece.It could be because I worked with very thin layers of paint this time.But I still feel,I need to improve on my timing.

Making My Way Through

These days I feel,I spend more time in thinking and planning what I should be actually painting,a landscape,still life or some figurative work.Eventually,I end up painting nothing(not a good sign).Hope this habit of mine is just for a short period of time.For this piece, I opened up my stock of reference photos,closed my eyes and randomly picked one.So,here is a painting from the photo that won the lucky draw :)

This work is done in oil and I had extremely tough time getting it photographed.The paint is still wet and may be thats the reason I get shiny and glossy looking photographs each time I click.This is the best I could do with the camera adjustments.

Ceaseless Flow-SOLD

Last ten days or so had been extremely busy for me.Never found enough time to paint.I am glad this weekend I managed to paint something.This is a quick watercolor work which is done from a photograph that I clicked a few years back when I visited Simlipal National Forest with my family.Have some great memories of the trip.Not very satisfied  with the way this piece turned out but I was simply happy to paint something.This piece also goes as my first entry to the blog In The Moment Challenge where the topic for the challenge is "Tranquil".

My cousin is getting married on 20th of this month and so, I will be away from the painting zone for some more time but I am super excited for a family get together. Wishing all a very happy Valentine's Day.:)

Open Up

Worked with watercolors after a fairly long time and so thought of painting this small piece, but like always, I loved using them.After finishing this piece I realized that this new year I worked on three paintings and all three of  them with different medium.Well,it wasn't intentional but I was happy to do so.Would like to continue that way, as working with a medium after a very long time makes me feel completely new to it.

For this painting I tried using minimum colors and thats three primary colors and a touch of burnt sienna .I am not very satisfied with the way the way I handled the bud.I tried keeping the blurred look but then overdid it.