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Cobalt Lake in incongruous arrangement
Watercolour card
©2013 Charlene Brown
By 'they' I think you know who I mean – those people who have a knack for
finding the perfect, appropriate and/or beautiful birthday card every time. What kind of a
card do you send them when they’ve obviously seen every known birthday card in
the course of finding the one they just sent you… Well, you paint one of
course.
Cobalt
Lake is one of four
stylized versions of larger paintings that I painted on 12.7 x 17.4 cm blank cards. Two of them
were masked using Masquepen™ and taped to a board in the folded position, as
shown on the right. (I learned not to tape the
cards down flat in a previous experiment.)
The two others were painted with only the back of the card
taped to the board, and masked with oil pastel. They flapped around quite a bit
under my brush, resulting in an especially casual style. And they still need some work.
