table and vase! by Louise Naimian

A lovely piece, Louise - love the wet on wet effect in all the right places!

Louise, I love the free and easy (ha ha!) way that you paint in watercolour. I feel inspired to have a go myself, though I'm daunted by how hard it really is, of course, and naturally one needs to master or at least understand quite well how watercolour behaves on certain paper, in certain ratios of water to paint, etc etc. I do like the way you seem to have cut around the vase and frames with your wash (am I right, you didn't use masking fluid?) in order to describe their form. Anyway, it's great!

P.S. Ah, I hadn't seen your comment underneath about Jean Haines' article - I read that too, and it also got me all inspired, though nothing has yet emerged from the creative processing going on inside.....

Thanks Seok and Caroline. Caroline, I didn't use masking fluid. Very wet paint, a little cling film behind the vase which I removed too quickly before it had dried and sprinklings of salt, as Jean Haines described which had little effect. The salt just made it gritty and tasted unpleasant (lol) Possibly ordinary table salt doesn't work! Should it be sea salt that I've seen in the shops but never actually bought? You should have a go, but don't despair if you end up with a wet mess as I did first time round :)

Really interesting and loose work. It has more form than Jean Haines' work normally has but that it no bad thing because you have taken the style and made it your own. I never found salt did anything either and waiting for clingfilm to do it's stuff is terminal I thought when I had a go at doing that. I think this a a lovely painting and is further proof of your success with this whole theme. PS that table should be worth a fortune now!! Will we see it on Antiques' Roadshow in the future I wonder!

Hi Louise, still didn't sell that table, did you? Beautiful loose painting. Well done!

Loose effective and appealing

Thanks Thea, Mia and Michael. By now, I could probably paint this table with my eyes closed, which I didn't by the way (lol)

Love the colours, my favourite pink! Goes well with the grey. Nice painting Louise.

Thanks Carole! Pinks and reds can always lift a painting I feel :)

Very nice Louise, but I prefer your usual style (which- in my opinion , we should be able to read about in the painting mags). I hope that someone "up there" reads this comment and comes zooming round to your place to interview you and does a nice artical on how you paint :) Jean Haines, fantastic-but there are many good artists on this web site that should get more of the recognition that they deserve :)

Thanks Sarah, I agree (lol)