Sunday, July 15, 2012

Another fun watercolor and collage of Ireland

I am finding that working with watercolor and collage is fun and challenging.  I am a fiber artist also and there is something about the assembly of textured papers,color and design that remind me of creating a wall hanging from all the bits and pieces of wool. It takes quite a bit of time. In this one you'll see I  used quite a few diagonal shapes.  The yellow in the front and the off-white stones lead you toward the white cottage.  This is based on a photograph of  the village of Tully Cross in  Galway. the most difficult part were the windows. The paper was a multi-colored blue tissue paper and I painted in the shadows and white curtains.  The dark shapes in front are piles of peat. many Irish folks still heat their homes with peat that is cut from the bogs. Can you see the sheep on the hills????

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