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I love the colors and elegance of fish. I used my Peerless watercolor background to draw and paint this goldfish. I got a little carried away with the water in his middle and got some pilling of the paper. But I am pleased to be bravely going ahead with the "watercolor experiments"! The background is Peerless watercolors, which I added a bit more blue to. The fish is mostly watercolor crayons with a little Peerless blue added, then outlined with a charcoal pencil. No pressure - just fun with color and shape. I do love the vibrancy of those Peerless watercolors though. Fun to use. I'm linking to
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I am in love with your background! The oranges in the fish just pop with that background! Happy PPF!
ReplyDeleteThanks Carolyn - I haven't been as diligent as I want to be in replying to comments. I do appreciate them very much. Happy New Year
DeleteGina, what a fantastic fish painting! I love the way you have repeated the colors of the fish into the background. It really ties it all together beautifully.
ReplyDeleteHey Faye - thanks so much for your encouraging comment. I was away for a couple of days - I really aim to answer comments more promptly. Happy New Year
DeleteYes, I really like that fish, pretty watercolor.
ReplyDeleteLovely little goldfish and lovely background, beautiful colours very well matched with fish. Thank you so much for sharing and have a great PPF!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your comment. Happy New Year to you and yours
DeleteWonderful colors!!
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Happy PPF and Happy New Year!!
Mary
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Your fish looks happy as a fish in water, lovely little painting! Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteCute and fun, beautiful washes from your experiments! Happy PPF and Happy New Year! <3
ReplyDeleteThanks for your lovely comment Anne - Happy New Year to you as well
Deletegreat watercolor sketch Gina! I hear a lot of good things about the Peerless paints. Happy PPF and happy 2013!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Linda - Happy New Year to you
DeleteGina, these colors are so rich and vibrant, I'm sure they are even better in RL.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. They are a little more vibrant IRL. Happy New Year to you and yours
DeleteSince I'm getting back into watercolors, I appreciate the in depth instructions. This looks fantastic. I look forward to trying all of it from the paper to the crayons. Thanks so much. Blessings, Janet PPF (thanks for the visit, yep, I know those bugs, we have them in So. FL so big that they can carry us away, lol.
ReplyDeleteI am so much a newbie at watercolor. I'm going to keep at it because I love the way they look. As an aside - the first time I saw a palmetto bug fly I was a bit freaked out. In New York the cockroaches were smaller and they didn't fly. Happy New Year
DeleteWonderful fish! I love the idea of "No pressure - just fun with color and shape" - such a perfect way to approach art. Wishing you a very creative and art filled 2013. Happy PPF
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by - one of my goals for 2013 is to find my artistic voice and to do that I need to keep the pressure low!!! Happy New Year to you
DeleteI too love the beautiful colors of so many different types of fish. Your fish is lovely and I really like the background colors you used. There is such a soft peaceful feel to watercolors.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ginny - and the soft peaceful feel is what I love most about watercolor. Happy New Year
DeleteI see this wonderful fish swimming through equally beautiful waters! Love you're experiments...also love and appreciate all your wonderful comments over at my place of late. Thanks so much! Gina . HPPF!
ReplyDeleteThank you Lynn for your lovely comment. I really do love your art! Happy New Year to you
DeleteI love my peerless watercolors... In fact, I need to get a new set soon.... My favorite colors are on their last legs! The have such wonderful saturation of color while still being beautifully transparent--- as you captured so beautifully with your fish!
ReplyDeleteSometimes getting to love a new medium means some investment of money - always time! I've used other watercolors and these are my favorite so far. Thanks for stopping by and making such a lovely comment. Happy New Year
DeleteIt's beautiful Gina! I love the intensity of the colors and love that it came from playing :)
ReplyDeleteThank you too for my comment - you made my day, thank you :)))
Happy new year to you and yours,
Xoxo