A couple of abstract watercolors

[mandrill]

I've never felt compelled to paint abstracts before. I'm planning on listing them on eBay.
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[irisamelia]

Dave, those are AWESOME!!! I love them both!!! Awesome use of color!!!

*thumbs up and a cookie* :D

I already made 2 icons from both of them. Whee hee!

[smegalicious]

Hello. Randomness of the hello-itude! I'm Alex. (Obviously).

Curiousity - How do you get the lighter colored, small bits in a watercolor painting? Do you use wax-type things, like drawing in crayon on paper before watercoloring when we were little, in school? By the lighter colored things, I mean the swirls, the lines and such...

Wheee.

[mandrill]

Liquid frisket. Each painting has around 15 layers of watercolor paint. On the bottom painting, when the painting was done, it took about an hour just to remove all the frisket.

[smegalicious]

Frisket being... Some sort of wax? Synthetics, or what?

[mandrill]

It's a type of liquid rubber, for lack of a better explanation. Most art supply stores should carry some brand of it.

[kraftpistole]

Those look great, doc. :-) My favourite is the first. It looks like glass, almost like a stained glass window or a kaleidoscope in motion. It also reminds me--although I'm not quite sure why--of the murals at the Contemporary Hotel at Walt Disney World. Have you ever seen them...?

[mandrill]

Nope...never seen those murals. Never been to Florida. I'll have to go look for a picture of them now. :=)

[kraftpistole]

It reminds me of them because they also use a lot of abstract, geometric shapes in light colours. :-)