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
I'm still obsessed with lighthouses so here is another one! This time I tried to go with a different mood so I used mostly earth colors. Despite being worn out over time, this tower is still standing gracefully. :BlobHajMlem:
I wanna put focus on the green color I used. As in one of the earlier paintings it's green apatite genuine by Daniel Smith. I'm really amazed how many different objects you can pull off with it.
Many people say that it's difficult to mix it with other colors, which is technically correct. But it works very well with any kind of lemon yellow. So you can get those beautiful greens glistening in the sun.
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).
Today’s fun. I’m still using the technique I learned from mattangelldesigns on Instagram. I did a quick background wash using a small hake. When dry, I added details using a small Chinese script brush. Colors: Ultramarine, Alizarin, Rich Green Gold, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Paynes Grey. #watercolor#watercolour#art#MastoArt
More experimentation. The sail consists of two triangles of masking tape, placed using a tweezer. The sandy texture is Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna shaved onto a wet wash using a nail file. The grasses were carved out of a wet wash using a plastic card. Colors: Ultramarine, Cobalt Teal, Alizarin, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna. Brushes: hake, 6, plastic card. #watercolor#watercolour#art#MastoArt