This is a project that I am currently working on in watercolor class - Plein Air. It has taken me many hours, and I had to sit in and amongst all the things I'm allergic to for hours at a time: plants, grass, pollen etc. It had rained on one occasion the day prior to our painting out of doors, so I sat on a plastic garbage bag on the ground. It's a difficult task to carry your art supplies, art board, paint case and traverse the campus, looking for the "perfect" spot - doesn't exist. I was with a classmate ( one of the sweetest people I have met outside of Eddy and his Mom ) and told her to pick the spot, and that I'll paint anything structural just not flowers, trees shrubs! After much indecision, she picked some Lilies, I was happy we landed. I picked a portion of the building in front of me. It's not a very good painting, but it was a true attempt on my part to capture the lesson ideas: Show temperature in your painting, represent warm and cool; it can be in local color or exaggerated. I chose to represent a more "local color" (things the way they actually appear), but my instructor felt it too boring, so I had to heighten the intensity of the blues. Eddy's response, "It's not something I'd hang on my wall." ( he will go down in history with this comment )-laughing now. He is my biggest and faithful fan, but he is also as honest as they come, tough on an artist at anytime, but always accepted - after a little pouting and stewing!!! Eddy is however my favorite critic, and I agree with him- this is not something I will hang on my wall; it will go in the pile of "projects" hidden away in a portfolio case, deep in the recesses of a closet. But it was an honest attempt!!
This is actually just portions of the painting. There was a lot of piping seen at the top of the painting, and then a portion of a window that had stuff in the background and then reflected stuff. Then there was a lot of water and dirt that had washed down the facade. Remember cool and warm exaggerated!
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