08 September 2009

not dark enough


This is a piece I have been working on the last few days. It started out to be golden-orange italic on arches 90lb, but I made a couple of errors in the text. So I thought, 'I'll just add a couple of layers of colors and text. Which turned out great but the green text was not dark enough and the layout was off a little. So more layers of wash then the final text was to be a dark purple, but alas the purple was not dark enough. It still gets lost in the background. I should have used gouache instead of watercolor. There is a section in the middle that I darken up by applying another layer of watercolor with a little tiny brush, but that will take entirely too long to fix the whole piece.

Any suggestions as to a direction I should take this piece? I still like the piece it just needs something to make it pop.

BTW, the text is Daniel 2:20-23.

3 comments:

  1. oooh! I like it too! Not sure of the size, but maybe choose one, two or three words for ruling pen or brush perpendicular up the right side?

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  2. Jane

    Thanks for the suggestion. I think that just might work as the piece is around 9x17. I will look at it for a while with your suggestion in mind.

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  3. This is a beautiful piece Jo. Thank you for visiting my blog!

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