THIRD AND FINAL WORKSHOP DAY - BYE, CAROL CARTER AND THANK YOU SO MUCH

Our third day of the workshop we had a new painting to begin.  This one was so interesting, so colorful, and something I haven't seen before.  Yes, I've seen bicycles painted by many artists over the years.  But look at this colorful, bold, almost "a rainbow of Skittles" type of bicycle!  Whew!  You can bet, if you rode this thing, you'd get lots of attention :)

Again, working wet-in-wet with lots of water, and beginning from the background and working forward, Carol created a lovely yellow glow around the center of the painting, changing the color towards the outsides of the paper - to keep our eye in the middle of the painting - with the beautiful Daniel Smith Shadow Violet (which is a mix of 3 colors - Pyrrol Orange, Ultramarine Blue, and Viridian).  These three colors, when put into a wet wash, separates into some really beautiful colors you can get no other way (in my opinion), plus it's always a surprise what colors you get - more pinkist in some areas, more greenish in some areas, more violet or blue in other areas!  Depends on the amount of water and how little or how much you brush the pigment around in the water on the paper!

So background forward.  Weight down the paper as it dries to control ridges or buckling paper.  Then moving forward, using the same yellow and shadow violet.
Delicious!

A few places on the bicycle were masked over using Incredible White Mask before painting around them - just to keep those areas white paper when you go into them with pure color later.

Then Carol began painting parts of the bicycle - just parts, not the whole thing!  Parts just large enough that she can control the washes.  And then doing other parts - a bicycle works perfectly for painting in sections and stopping wherever it seems right and then going back to another part (like painting one petal of a flower, then painting another).

Color color is the goal!  Look that that shadow shape!!! WHEW!!!  The paint there is still very wet into wet water so it's still flowing and merging.  Using 3 different colors, she made 5 different colors, not getting dull or grey unless she wanted it that way.  Beautiful!

Seriously, you must take a Carol Carter workshop if you want to paint wet and juicy and amp up your colors (and, no, she is not paying me to say this! ha ha)

The workshop was just 3 days long, meeting from 10 am - 4 pm and we had people still painting 15 minutes before the final day ended = that tells you how much we wanted to soak up and learn and practice before we had to leave.  

How many times have you been in a workshop and had half the class leave after lunch on the last day?  Not this group!  They were dedicated, excited, and wanted to keep seeing those colors merge and bleed and blossom and glow!  I hope we all can remember and use some of the techniques we learned and incorporate them into our own style and palette choices to create something beautiful.

Thanks for following along.  Now...back to the art room and do something of my own.