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Balboa Park
Watercolour and crayon
©2012 Charlene Brown
Here's how I think I
did with respect to following my plan for 2012:
As usual, I tried to paint more spontaneously and to move away from representational painting, and made some progress in stylizing landscapes by working on more than one
picture at a time. I’m quite happy with
the way Balboa Park
(based on photos I took during our Christmas trip to San Diego, California)
turned out, and have another in the works, which I will post early in the New
Year.
My favourite travel
journaling was very close to home – the first six of these British Columbia posts.
I’ve continued to participate in the Virtual Paintout,
completing all 12 of the 2012 locations:
Colorado, Elba, St. Petersburg, Gdansk, Jerusalem,Latvia, Thailand, Tasmania,Zealand, Croatia,New Brunswick, and Slovakia.
In May, I turned a couple of full sheet watercolours I
painted about 15 years ago into same size (and much more striking) posters.
By far my biggest undertaking was to get a good start on a
small book, Plein air Painting: the drama, a compilation of some of the
stories I’ve written about painting en
plein air over the four years I’ve been writing 1150 Words.
