Planning Your Own Watercolors

Generating and refining a concept for a painting, tools and strategies for design, planning and evaluating work-in-progress.

"Red Cedar, Before the Storm", watercolor, 11x21" ©2006 Lynne Baur
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Dealing with Problem Paintings, Part 2: The Hyperactive Overachiever

In the last post, I gave some ideas for dealing with a “too boring for words” problem painting.  The one you were never excited about in the first place. Our “problem child” this time is the opposite of boring, it’s trying to do too much. When I’m running into trouble with one of my own…

photo of a barn
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Dealing with “Problem Paintings”—Part 1: Too Boring for Words

If you’ve painted in watercolor for more than a day or so, I know you’ve been here: after hours of hard work, you’re struggling with a blotchy, overworked section that you know isn’t going to be right, no matter how much more effort you put into it. It’s tempting to conclude that you just don’t have what it takes . . . maybe it’s time to take up something easier to master, say, golf.

How do you deal with “problem paintings” like this? (click the picture to read more)