Good effort! I’d suggest you start with thinner washes, let it dry, and build it gradually in intensity, using different colors in it too (a bush is not just green, for example). What kind of paper and paints are you using? In watercolor, the quality of your art supplies play a big role, more so than in any other medium (due to its transparency, it needs to behave well in thin washes).
You have lovely colour choices and tonal variation happening! One tip I could give is to do some of the water in layers, using a wet on wet application you can create edges that look a bit like the layering of waves on the beachfront. Also utilising my transparency (less pigment) on the shoreline and more toward the ‘deep’ water will give the illusion of the deepening waters :) start with your least pigmented later, let it dry then work your way out :)
Yeah, it’s going to be quite a change, mostly for my French husband. It should be familiar territory for me. We bought a new house close to my mom’s house, as we have a lot of things and we wouldn’t fit in her house. We’re moving after deciding I need to help my mom, after my dad’s death last year, where he died alone in the mountains (they were divorced). I had plans to go that year and move him to an apartment, after postponing that trip due to c-vid for a year. I was too late…
Cost of living is better than the US overall, but the prices on foods is going up constantly there… Thankfully we will have a veggie garden, and access to local pastured eggs, goats, sheep, and chickens by my aunts, and wild fish from the nearby sea town.
Haha, I wish! He’s an engineer, and he says that I “don’t do the boxes right”. So he likes to do it by himself! He only needs me to ask if we’re going to keep something or throw it away. So I keep painting! :)
Thx! I left to find a job, originally in UK, in 1996. I was a programmer originally. Then I met my (French-in-the-US) husband on IRC, got married, and also moved to the US. Been there since 2001. Here I became a tech journalist, and then an artist (mostly collage art, where I had a very successful career in the 2010s – paintings/illustration are new to me).
The reason to come back I detailed in another reply here.
Thanks for sharing your story! And sorry about your dad, being away from family is the main reason why I’d like to stay close by. It’s bittersweet but I’m happy you’re getting closer to your mom 😊 I hope your husband still has family in France, he will be closer as well
It wasn’t to happen for us either. But then my dad died in Greece last year, and I’m pretty sure that I could have saved him if I was there (he was living alone in the mountains and he was not seeing doctors regularly). So I said, that’s it, I still have a mother. We’re going. And (French) husband agreed.
I understand. The one and only one time in 50 years that we ever had any family visit us it was my grandmother and on like the 3rd day she was here, she fell and broke her leg. For the remaining 3 weeks she was mostly holed up in the house because she couldn’t move much. If you need to head back to take care of family, no one can argue with that.
Do iiiiiit. Half of what people like about art is the life story of the people who created it. I understand if it’s not financially viable. The time zone idea sounds really great!
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