My ArtVenture: Watercolor painting "At home by Inspector Barnaby"
Heelo my dear Steemians,
So yesterday was the day of update, we have now Hardfolk 20. That reminded me a "Terminator" movie when everybody was waiting for the Skynet, but the day when it came online everything was destroyed. Of course it is not so bad scenario, but there were moments of shocks, people could not post and whales felt themselves like minnows whose posts reached less then 1,0$ and no comment. But for minnows this is normal condition, that they see everyday so now many can imagine how it is.
I have no idea if my posting will drain out completely my SP, but if we do not try we do not know. So my friends, let's go back on poasting.
In my recent post I mentioned that I bought a Watercolor paper, this time it was textured, 300 gsm heavy, I decided to give another go for my watercolor skills. It is like a pain for me, I love watercolor but I always have to struggle with it, I try to be very careful and pay attention to everything but my heart is crying when I see something that should not be there.
So back to my Experiment with watercolor. Yesterday I was watching my favorite movie, actually it is a series of movies "Inspector Barnaby", I love hte idyllic town Causton in Midsommer County, there are many things attract me in this series such as story in first instance, also the music, that specific music that you immediately recognise, this is almost the same like for "Indiana Jones" or Star Wars", "Star Trek" with their music, the same is hte music in "Inspector Barnaby"
I also love the houses, many of them quite old, Victoria, Edwardian or in Tudor style, of course the antique furniture, old cars. I love these simple cottages with thatched roofs, therefore I wanted to present you my work that reminds my my favorite movie.
My first pencil sketch, I know that watercolor paper does not like graphite and eraser, thereforel very like sketch and already the first layers of colors. Actually I was upset with what I had, I thought it is too much but the bad thing with watercolor you can't easily correct. C'est la vie
The next was to do greens, I just use every possible colors to do hedge, it is autumn so we have all palette of colors :)
The next step is the sandstones, I learnt that for the colors already used for surroundings should reflect in the walls, so here it is, actually looking not really right, it was a moment when I had internal battle between to destroy my painting and bin it or just keep going. I decided to keep going.
I decided to go back to greens that was the best and easily done so a little bit of nature :)
At this stage I could not face the wall of house and decided to do more distinct stone shapes and some shadowing to give 3d effect :) I love my chimney, that was also easy part.
At last of course the main character my favorite thatched roof and a gate, so
Your humble servant @stef1 and today's date 25.09.18
Really nice painting. I love the softness from the watercolors and numerous details which you painted on it. Just beautiful... And keep up the good work. We will figure out how the new system will work. But everything needs time. Like my voting power which will apparently recharge in 83 hours. We will see. Have a pleasant rest of the day.
Thank you, I really appreciate you for viewing my post and taking time for such wonderful comment. I agree with you it needs time to settle, once everything is stabilized we will be back to normal routine Steeming. I can imagine with your Upvote power, that happened to me, but I already heard from guys yesterday who were able to posts and of course that was a shock for them. I wish you a nice rest of the week :)
Really nice piece of art. Well done :)
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Thank you very much for your nice comment and I am glad you like my hard work :)
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Such a beautiful piece, @stef1 !! The stone house and its sprawling green foliage ! Oh, so idyllic and wonderfully serene <3 I love this very much !
Steemit is a bit quieter after HF20 but if we keep up our normal behaviours ... maybe it will help it normalize also? :) Let's keep up the positivity \o/!
Beautiful work!
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A lovely painting of a house. I can certainly imagine looking at this picture in a nice frame at someone's wall. Those walls are my favourite part in this one, you drew really nice bricks, Stef :D.
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We all survived HF at the end :) I love inspector Barnaby!! I've never been to any villages in the UK but I can imagine this is exactly how all of them look like. Your painting is very nice. I like the wide road which leads into the greenery. It somehow looks mysterious which fits the theme perfectly! :)
Thank you for sharing!