Winter reflection warm up by Nancy Farrar Coughlin

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Looks great Nancy more than a warm up me thinks. Lovely granulation I see possibilities, is it a Daniel Smith pigment?

Posted by Barry Hulme on Mon 17 Dec 08:07:02

Nice colourful Painting Nancy

Posted by dennis roberts on Mon 17 Dec 08:51:38

Lovely Nancy with beautiful transitions

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Mon 17 Dec 09:02:37

Not being afraid of using black (many people are)..this is good Nancy. Nice effect and good experimenting.

Posted by Jim Morris on Mon 17 Dec 10:01:18

I like the look of this already Nancy.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Mon 17 Dec 18:31:06

Thanks Barry. Yes it is Daniel Smith Lunar Black. I put that down first and ran a lot of water thru it, which caused all the cool granulation. Let it dry. Then dropped in other colors. Added a little more black to the rocks at the end, truly an experiment, from memories of lakes, woods, etc. not from a photo.

Posted by Nancy Farrar Coughlin on Mon 17 Dec 20:11:45

Thank you Dennis, Dennis, Fiona, appreciate your kind comments, always. And Jim, yes I bought two tubes of black paint. After doing a lot of black and white value portraits over the summer, I decided I want to use it and experiment with black in landscapes. ! why not, something to learn ... :)

Posted by Nancy Farrar Coughlin on Mon 17 Dec 20:43:12

Beautiful effects Nancy!

Posted by Carole Swingler on Mon 17 Dec 21:58:09

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17/12/2018

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Watercolor, experimenting with a new tube of lunar black, which really granulates! Just a warm up exercise, made up scene. 9 x 11"

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Nancy Farrar Coughlin

I have recently escaped to the coast, to Grays Harbor in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. I love nature, being outdoors, the ocean as well as the woods. I am grateful for life, after a ruptured appendix and a year of healing recently; I am treasuring every day! It was time to move…

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