Just one word of caution,Brian. Watercolor is an exacting media to control.
Unlike drawing, or any of the opaque painting medias, there is virtually no
going back over a watercolor rending to repair and error. Just my .02 cents.
(I jhad ust posted a comment on the photog aspect in the original post, and
then I saw this one.
Rick
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for your thoughts, folk..
>
> Interesting that there seems to be a bit of resonance here and there.
>
> I hope I can open the cat-flap if I bump into it.
>
> And, no - painting over a photographic print just wouldn't cut the mustard.
>
> Not one of the galleries I would hope to be exhibited in would look even
> once at such work from me.
>
> I know of one local artist who photographs very old gold-miner rock-shelter
> cabins ( 150+ years old) and paints over the unattractive/distracting
> surroundings on quite small prints, to bring the attention right on to the
> cabin(s). But that's not the same. And she exhibits only/mainly in a
> gallery
> run by a collective of which she is part. has inside running, so to speak.
>
> What I would use photographic prints for is (a) help provide an accurate
> outline of the essential structural elements in the picture, and (b) help
> get
> the colour / shading just right. Both for when I got home and worked on the
> real painting. But we all know how colour temperature can play havoc with
> "true colour rendition".
>
> When creating a "painted over" photographic print, one would have to bear
> in mind that this is called mixed media.
>
> I have in mind true water colour paintings. That's what has sold in the
> past
> and continues to sell.
> Look at ... http://www.http://bensart1.homestead.com/
>
> Whatever you might think of his paintings, people like them and buy them.
>
> Mixed media paintings usually also are associated with 'avant guarde'
> painters ... I'm not going down that road, for now.
>
> Brian Swale.
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