Painting watercolour with big brushes? 5cm-wide brushes?
This was the fascinating approach that we learned from American artist, Sterling Edwards, during a short but entertaining DVD that John S kindly brought to us at the FHAS meeting.
A dozen members and friends attended the meeting and were amazed at the versatility of this artist who doesn't do detail with small brushes. He uses a more sophisticated (ie softer) version of brushes you can buy at Builder's Warehouse or Mica!
It was food for thought!
Look him up on the web. He has his own site: www.sterlingedwards.com.
John also brought along some examples of mini-painting that he has been working on. They are more or less conform to the international standard for miniature paintings in size, but are slightly larger - and indeed these were impressive, being both colourful and detailed without being slavish to detail.
He is suggesting we have a mini-painting competition to coincide with the AGM in early 2019.
John demonstrated the range of supports and framing material that could complement these small paintings (around the size of a playing card).
Again, food for thought!
Thanks Rob for the photos. Not bad for a cellphone under such low lighting!
This was the fascinating approach that we learned from American artist, Sterling Edwards, during a short but entertaining DVD that John S kindly brought to us at the FHAS meeting.
A dozen members and friends attended the meeting and were amazed at the versatility of this artist who doesn't do detail with small brushes. He uses a more sophisticated (ie softer) version of brushes you can buy at Builder's Warehouse or Mica!
It was food for thought!
Look him up on the web. He has his own site: www.sterlingedwards.com.
John also brought along some examples of mini-painting that he has been working on. They are more or less conform to the international standard for miniature paintings in size, but are slightly larger - and indeed these were impressive, being both colourful and detailed without being slavish to detail.
He is suggesting we have a mini-painting competition to coincide with the AGM in early 2019.
John demonstrated the range of supports and framing material that could complement these small paintings (around the size of a playing card).
Again, food for thought!
Thanks Rob for the photos. Not bad for a cellphone under such low lighting!
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