Monday, May 23, 2011

One, two, three

All the paintings below have been done with poster colours, which is an opaque medium and with hindsight, water colours would have been much better.

One:
Landscape in only one colour - brown. I feel the clouds and islands have turned out nicely, but the water on the horizon is too dark and that closest to the viewer is a bit light. Perhaps a principle of colorimetry could set things right! This one's the simplest and probably the most beautiful of the three.
Two:
 Apart from the black in the huts, I've used only two colours - brown and green in painting this landscape. Owing to the bad picture quality, the sky appears absolutely bland; it is (slightly) better in the original. Many things could have been better, especially the nearer mountain and the shrubs.
Three:
Made out of three colours - yellow, blue and vermilion (primary colours), this is the worst of the three, and the picture quality worsens it further. Absence of bright colours and my laziness in changing the water regularly shows up!

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