Edo's "The Fishtrap" tutorial
Hi everyone, and autumnal greetings from Oslo, Norway!
I bought my first Aquafine brushes and paints some 13 months ago, after a friend on Facebook published a painting called "Sailing Ship", by Gustave Buchet. For some reason that painting struck a nerve with me, and before I knew it, I entered "watercolour tutorial" into YouTube, and Olly's 'Painting The Landscape' tutorial video came up. And now, here we are! To this day I've still not mastered to paint those windswept trees on the downs, but I cannot begin to explain how important Olly's videos and his painting style has been for my sustaining interest for this beautiful medium.
After some time, I also discovered Edo's YT channel, and was struck by the serenity and the moody skies in his paintings, and not to fanboy TOO much here, but finding out that these two wonderful artists were to cooperate and run an idealistic watercolour community together, was almost too good to be true!
Some weeks ago, I decided to try my luck with one of Edo's tutorials, of a painting called "The Fishtrap", to put my practice into action, and I'm quite proud of the end result! I felt in control of (most of) the washes, both paper and paint behaved as I always hope they will, and although my interpretation is no match against the original, I'm happy with it. So here it is, and I recommend everyone to visit https://edohannemawatercolourartist.wordpress.com/online-watercolour-demos/ to try it out for yourselves!
Oh, and I do welcome any critique, so don't hold back! I'm perfectly comfortable being a beginner, so any advice you have that will help me improve my technique, I'll appreciate greatly.
Best regards,
Erik
Hi, Erik. I havenโt seen Edoโs tutorial, so I canโt compare things like luminosity and saturation in your respective paintings. But coming fresh, so to speak, to yours, I have to say that it stands entirely on its own merits. For starters, I think the sky is wonderful, both in its own drama and in how it subtly mirrors the perspective of the scene below. The distant trees really do seem to be as far away as the eye can see on this flat vista. The reflections are superb and I like how the perfect triangular symmetry is disrupted by the turn of the river in the bottom left.