Mulholland House
August 23rd, 2006
What? A watercolor journal page? What happened to the paintings?
This is an “oldie” from about a month ago. I was out interviewing people for a video about hospice today, which was very emotional and moving. So I didn’t get any drawing or painting accomplished. But hey, it’s only 9:30 Pacific time, the night’s young and I might just catch a second wind.
Watercolor in a “Cachet” Moleskine
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Lovely - glad you shared.
I love the color and motion in the sketch.
Wish my journal had as much pizzaz
A sketchbook is my Favorite Thing, Karen. Delighted that you shared this one. Lovely. Surprised that your cachet took that much water without a lot of buckling. I need to learn how you did that to apply to my cachet.
Annie
LOVE IT, Karen! And even more BECAUSE it’s a journal page!! I DO LOVE seeing other people’s journals!
OH,OH,OH! karen, I love the pinks in this! I know it’s a sketch but I would love to see you do a painting, although the clouds wouldn’t probably reflect off the wall from this angle, using the same tones of pink
on the wall and the flowers gives that feeling. It feels like the apricot cast that covers everything sometimes at sunset expect it is pink Capturing a color tone through out an entire painting is something
I would like to learn to do, like the green cast when you walk in the forest or the gold cast in the fall in the woods. Any tips on how to do that would be gladly taken! So glad you shared this.
Lovely. I think journals are very private and intimate and they keep that “keepsake” feeling to them. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful, as always!
But what I’d like to know, why does Mulholland Drive sound so familar to me? There must be a movie or something with it …
Thanks Annie, Lin, Endment
Tami, thanks - it is a study in anticipation of a painting. I’ll probably do it in oils in an impressionist style rather than watercolor. Yes, the sunset was very ruddy orange, giving a cast to the scene. Some watercolorists get that cast feeling by putting down a wash of the cast color before starting their painting. If all the colors used are transparent, that underlayer will glow through. It really helps if you work very wet when you put that wash down, which means it’s better if you work on real watercolor paper, not just a sketchbook with lighter pages.
Simone, thank you.
Renate, Mulholland Falls, was the name of a movie. There are no waterfalls on Mulholland Drive, though, that title ironically refers to people being thrown off the high cliffs. Mulholland Drive is sort of the backbone of the Santa Monica Mountains that separates the valley from the rest of the LA “basin” as we call it.
Renate,
There was a movie that came out a couple of years ago called Mulhoaalnd Drive. A suspense/thriller if I remember right.