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Art Experiments with Watercolor and Sand.

24 Sunday May 2015

Posted by artbypallinghamcarlson in art experiments, art lesson, creative process, fine art and watercolor, making art, watercolor and sand

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Sometimes I am brimming with ideas for artworks I want to paint. Often I am not. In our busy lives we sometimes don’t  have the time to create, express the ideas swimming around in our heads when we have them; how frustrating to have the time to create and no ideas to work with!

On such days I may organize my completed work, touch up some old work, or just haul out a variety of materials and experiment.

I love experiment day, it is the most fun kind of grown-up art play I can imagine.

On this day I decided to try sand, water and paint. I don’t know where that idea came from, but I enjoy creating new textures to paint on, and wondered what these materials could do.
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Outside I dumped sand onto paper, wet it, drew in it with my finger, then dropped concentrated watercolor paint onto it. Then I let it dry, and brushed off the sand.

That was really fun!

(By the way, I kept the colored sand for another future experiment!)

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Here’s what one image looked like dry. My own imagination does not process mechanically; it took a facebook viewer to say she saw an automobile in the image. Yep, there was a car.

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I researched different types of cars, found an old Cadillac that fit the need. Started sketching it in.

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Then painting.

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And it became Pink Cadillac.

Fun indeed, and I had painted my first realistic car. That was a challenge I learned from, set up by chance and experimenting.

That is just what I love about experimental approaches. You never know what new idea will be born, what texture or color or form might be created. If you can imagine a unique way to apply paint, why not try it? Nothing to lose, right? And if you find something cool that works for you, share it with me—  Please!

Have a fabulous day, all.

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Throughout Patricia's adult life she has been painting and enjoying presenting images of the world as seen and imagined. The paintings you see these blog are frequently textural, suggesting multiple layers of images through time. Ancient scenes, structures, people from long ago, and other realms weave through many of these paintings.

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