Beaver Pond at Third Lake
Watercolour and oil pastel
©2018 Charlene Brown
To achieve an abstracted landscape, I’m using
a technique employed by oil and acrylic painters – instead of doing a pencil
drawing, I’ve ‘roughed in’ the basic shapes using oil pastels, then gradually
refined the overall composition with boldly-applied layers of paint.
As usual, this painting ended up quite a bit
less bold or even ‘rough’ than I’d hoped it would be, and more detail than I
wanted found its way past the ‘resist’ of the oil pastel.
Despite this, I will continue to try to
abstract familiar scenes, mainly from the Rockies, possibly allowing my inner ‘Hundertwasser’ a bit more
leeway.
