Ron Mulvey✏️

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Thanks Barbara for pushing forward. The deep red brown is bold and striking.I feel that your darks are excellent . Take a close look at that hard edged limb on the right side of the second tree from the left. See how clear and strong it looks.That is a fine dark. Background mountain is very well done and described with suggestions of trees - that create distance. There are no details in the distance yet many students still put them in. I read a book years ago that said you cannot see a cows foot in the grass from 200 feet. Your simple suggestion of distant trees works perfectly. So all done and said this is what I believe should be your next perception in your artwork. Leave some fine interesting white shapes. Pure white paper untouched by the brush. They do not have to be big but they do have to be visible. For example a fine thin white space along the bottom of the bank. Or a few in that perfect orange diagonal in the middle. I do see some warm lights behind the dark branch that I mentioned above and that is good.Now if that light area was pure white it would be even more effective. This keeping of whites is the most difficult task of the watercolor artist. I have missed it many times. It is so easy to cover everything with paint. I am looking forward to seeing this new directive in your next painting. Our next class shows me blundering about with all sorts of Penguin Problems. I solve one using some opaque white also. We are so to speak birds of a feather Barbara.

I updated my other painting  and tried again. Since my forest is in WA State, the trees are Western Red Cedar and Hemlock. Could have put in an old growth stump.. The blue in the background could be Baker Lake! Lol   I mixed my own colors, made greys and brown. I used gauche and water. You taught me a lot! You always encourage me but I need a lot of practice. Feel weak in putting in darks. Thank you teacher, Ron.

Hi Barbara, I can feel the prickly pine trees in this painting. That fantastic tangled web of branches on the left two trees is so typical of what we have in our forest here up in the mountains. You have a very 'magical style' with your paintings. Things blur and then come into focus and then melt away again. Colors are well done. You have the orange/blue impact very well balanced. The oblique streaks in the background create contrast and movement. the clean pure yellows are perfectly transparent. Since most of the painting is warm that blue patch jumps right out at me. I like being pulled into a painting by a dominant shape or a rogue color. Those trees on the left could earn a starring role in another painting. Try cropping them with some white paper, study them, and redraw them on another piece of w/c paper. Then reproduce them in a slightly larger format. They really are well done. Learn to identify your best efforts and disregard the so called failures. I have at times cut out the best part of a watercolor that was not up to my liking and then ended up with a real little gem. Do not cut this picture as it all works very well but do try another painting of those trees on the left. Thanks for being my student, Top marks for this one Barbara.

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