Last week in Milonga I painted the landscape only once, in a workshop about surprises in our paintings.
Our teacher Ad van Aart had prepared this lesson and I was eager to join (these lessons are voluntary, we are not required to attend).
The aim was to paint a scene and to add an element of surprise to the painting.
My plan was to paint a landscape (this is the view from my bedroom that week) and add checkerboard - like marks on top of it for my first 'surprise' and do something with a flower shape for the second 'surprise'. It was easy to paint the landscape so I have made three versions that are almost identical and gave two of them a 'paint over'.
This was fun and I liked doing this.
The flower shape was the hardest, mostly because I had tried to hide the underlying landscape completely and that could not be done with watercolour paint.
So I washed away some of the paint but the result is not really beautiful.
That is a lesson learned.
More information about these watercolour paintings can be found at my website www.jannekesatelier.webs.com
