Completed this afternoon, my newest watercolor: HONEY CRISP APPLES,
This painting took around one hundred hours to complete. My challenge was to capture the element of time....time standing still. It's about capturing that very moment when the light was embracing the basket, apples, and chair with that early morning light coming from slightly back and above. That indirect light is so subtle that it casts blue shadows onto the wood of the basket and the ladder back chair.
My process is to paint an area on, then manipulate it...softening here, darkening there, wiping it off and leaving a ghost of the color behind. I blow it dry than attack it again, adding more subtle variations as I go. There are times when I use a brush to remove color completely then go back with a new color. Color is erased, lightened, darkened, and played with until I have all the subtle colors and variations I see.
Colorfully, Sandy Meyer