Tonight's Watercolor

(C) 2020 Dale DiMauro

This watercolor is inspired by an experience along one of the many finger-shaped landscape inlets along mid-coast Maine. The landscape is characterized with dramatic views of the sea, often from a rocky or sandy shoreline, full of uninterrupted evergreen masses. In addition, the ocean smells draw you in.

The horizontal format of this watercolor block is great for painting landscapes. Most of the time I prefer Arches watercolor blocks with a cold press surface.

Landscape painting can be really exciting as it is not so technical as say figure painting. As long as the perspective is fairly accurate I find I can experiment with different brush techniques. Since the paper has a tooth to it, you can drag the brush across the paper at a steep angle and achieve lovely speckled affects.