Japanese Watercolor: Enso with Nature's 4 Elements for Beginners

Japanese Watercolor: Enso with Nature's 4 Elements for Beginners - student project

Thank you Miwa! 

It was such a pleasure to let go and watch watercolor do its thing!

I tried very hard to not overwork it but I think I did in some cases (just like I already did in every other work lol :D)

I love the flow and I got my ideas maybe not perfect but close to what I imagined about fire, water, earth and air.

I love oriental culture and Japanese espesially for the clear compositions and gentle gradations of colors. I would study that more if I had a chance and I know I would learn so much from it.

I will remember this beautiful experience and use what I took from your lessons in my future works!

I love your approach to watercolor and it what I need to let more freedom in my painting process and probably in life in general.

 

I used shimmering watercolor set I got from China and white watercolor too plus Baohong paper happened here too:)

I also salted it!

Here is the Earth

Japanese Watercolor: Enso with Nature's 4 Elements for Beginners - image 1 - student project

The Fire

Japanese Watercolor: Enso with Nature's 4 Elements for Beginners - image 2 - student project

The Water

Japanese Watercolor: Enso with Nature's 4 Elements for Beginners - image 3 - student project

And The Air

Japanese Watercolor: Enso with Nature's 4 Elements for Beginners - image 4 - student project

It looks more like the Night and I regret that I added too much blue in the middle area.

But it features 2 cats=^×^= and I want to make it on bigger paper now.

Thank you so much for your gentle teaching! I look forward to taking more classes from you in the future and enjoy your beautiful artworks!!!