Lost and Found in the Details

My antidote for overwhelm.  If when faced with a complicated section of a painting, you've thought:  how on earth am I going to paint this? — this episode is for you.  It's the other half of the Making it Real pair of workshops.  

Painting detail isn't about special techniques or clever tools. For me it's more about strategies to stay with it, keep from trying to "organize" the detail in your reference, and paint just enough detail to make the point, but not so much it becomes distracting.  

I've found that crazy-detailed sections reveal themselves progressively — once you've painted something, the next steps become clearer. 

Here's Blush - a painting I mention in this epside:  https://www.lifeinfullcolor.com/gallery-floral-still-life/blush-2/  It was the lower part of the right-hand peony that sent me on tilt.  

This is a workshop in my series Watercolor Basics and Beyond.  I plan to offer it in segments online coming soon. If you'd like to be notified, you can sign up for my email newlsetters on my website:  https://www.lifeinfullcolor.com, where you can also see all my art and the workshops I offer, incuding this one!

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