Written by Quick little doodlewash after reading a short little book I found on Kindle Unlimited called Introduction to Loose Watercolor by Roy Simmons. Just a couple demos, but the book also has links to two video time-lapse tutorials.
Roy references one of the coolest aspects of watercolor and that’s the fact that our minds add information to complete the scene. Whether it’s a shoreline with a bit of a beach on the left or perhaps a boat in the dark area to the right, like in this doodlewash. Neither of these were intended or thought through, just tricks of light and white that make our brains fill in the gaps.
That’s really my favorite aspect of watercolor. You can create scenes that nearly jump out of your subconscious and even you are often surprised with the result. Or, like me, you might just think, wow… I thought I remembered to add orange, but man that’s a crazy pink sky!
That is a great image.
Great looseness and use of color.
Thanks so much Wayne! Been trying to loosen up for weeks! Hehe…I really appreciate the comment!! 🙂
So cool! Great to see you were able to create a painting after reading my book. Very fine ‘doodlewash’!
Thanks so much Roy! Your book was great!! This was in the very first month when I was just starting out and it was wonderful to see your demonstration. I coined ‘doodlewash’ because I wanted to take the pressure off for people and not worry about creating a “masterpiece”… just have fun! 🙂 Thanks for dropping by friend!
My pleasure Charlie ! like your thinking, so much of watercolor painting and art making in general is in our mind (I can’t do that…) anyone can doodle, great riff.
Thanks Roy! And if you’d ever consider being a Guest Doodlewash feature artist, let me know! Would love to feature you and your work!! (And I have a lot more followers now than I had back then! Hehe👍🏻)
Will do, btw are you a member on pmp-art.com? We have 30k members there now. You would like the loose watercolor group.
I’m not!! Looks cool! Just signed up! Thanks! 😃👍🏻
Beautiful sky! I’d love to see what you would come up with if you were to paint this now!
Aww thanks! 😃💕 Yeah, I kind of drifted away from traditional scenes and moved into illustration.
We have crazy-pink skies like this in Alaska, especially Anchorage, in the spring time. We also have Alpenglow!!!
Aww lovely!! I’ve never been to Alaska, but would love to visit someday! 😃💕