Finished! BOREAS DANCES ON TABLE ROCKS, 19x13”, pearlescent watercolor on handmade black paper. Depicting the May 10, 2024 solar storm over Upper and Lower Table Rocks in southern Oregon. What a night! (BOREAS, the Greek god of the north wind, is what the aurora borealis are named for.)
If I had to show what my actual "style" is, this painting is a good example. Boring, daily life illustrations. Nothing extraordinary. My main career as a successful artist was as a collage artist, and #surrealism was the name of the game. 10 years of weird things depicted in each artwork. I had enough of it. With illustrations, I just want the mundane. I want peace.
I may have said already that I think I don't have quite enough paintings for the marginalia.
Photography is an important archaeological discipline, and when we visited Lindisfarne castle a couple of weeks ago, I found a camera of about the right era ..
It's a very limited palette, only earth colours and ultramarine. Not finished, but a start.
End of #Spring, and beginning of #Summer here in #Greece. Everything's just turning hot... This is a painting I did in December, but only now I have access to a scanner.
I’m just playing with this. It’s a bit abstract. It’s the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix, Arizona and shows a few saguaro cactus growing in the foreground. Colors: Ultramarine, Teal, Quin Rose, Spring Green, Burnt Sienna, Paynes Grey. Brushes: hake, rigger. #watercolor#watercolour#art#MastoArt
To celebrate Aplatonic Visibility Day I tried painting a still life with apples.
I like the end result but the painting process was way more stressful then I imagined it to be. I guess round shapes are not as easy as they look. 😄
I like the color scheme though! It's almost exclusively painted with just three colors: A red (cadmium red), a yellow (lemon yellow PY3) and a blue (deep blue PB60).
Fun with wet in wet. Again I followed the method I learned from mattangelldesigns on Instagram. Today, I used all M. Graham paints and found they gave me really bright colors, wet in wet. Colors: Ultramarine, Quin Rose, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Soring Green, Paynes Grey. Brushes: hake, rigger. #watercolor#watercolour#art#MastoArt
This image is a detail from my watercolor painting American Bald Eagle portrait, which I painted in landscape format. I have cropped it to a modern square format.