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It's 3rd edition of Photo Challenge (www.deviantart.com/kizzy-i-kei… ). All participans had 1 month (whole September 2018) to draw the landscape from given photo. This time it was photo of Ingleton Waterfalls (www.deviantart.com/montymouse/… ) taken by MontyMouse .

My conclusions?

This time I avoided 2 mistakes which I did in my previous attempts: problem with no focal point in my 1st try and too colourful (in my opinion) palette which I applied on my 2nd try. So here is a progress .

Analyzing my previous artworks and observing how others did it I realized also that aquarells forces the painter to make artistical choices and stylize some elements to make the painting looking good. So this time I didn't try to depict everything exactly like on photo (but trying to keep the major part of it) like I did in my first try, but also not go totally wild what I did with colours in 2nd. Using photo as reference is quite challenging in case of aquarells because, as for me now, it always is more interpretation than depicting. It is of course possible to paint photorealistic aquarelle paintings but (despite they require incredibly skill to do so) they often loose then their characteristical lightness and transparent look which we all love in aquarells .

I'm looking forward to try the next photo (I'll publish it in my journal when it's choosen if we decide to continue). Especially that comparing results of other artists facing the same theme and observing their artistical choices is really interesting and educative .

Painted with aquarells on 200g/m2 Fabriano paper 24x32cm.

The same painting by others so far:
www.deviantart.com/montymouse/…

www.deviantart.com/virtuella/a…

Description
It's 3rd edition of Photo Challenge (www.deviantart.com/kizzy-i-kei… ). All participans had 1 month (whole September 2018) to draw the landscape from given photo. This time it was photo of Ingleton Waterfalls (www.deviantart.com/montymouse/… ) taken by MontyMouse .

My conclusions?

This time I avoided 2 mistakes which I did in my previous attempts: problem with no focal point in my 1st try and too colourful (in my opinion) palette which I applied on my 2nd try. So here is a progress .

Analyzing my previous artworks and observing how others did it I realized also that aquarells forces the painter to make artistical choices and stylize some elements to make the painting looking good. So this time I didn't try to depict everything exactly like on photo (but trying to keep the major part of it) like I did in my first try, but also not go totally wild what I did with colours in 2nd. Using photo as reference is quite challenging in case of aquarells because, as for me now, it always is more interpretation than depicting. It is of course possible to paint photorealistic aquarelle paintings but (despite they require incredibly skill to do so) they often loose then their characteristical lightness and transparent look which we all love in aquarells .

I'm looking forward to try the next photo (I'll publish it in my journal when it's choosen if we decide to continue). Especially that comparing results of other artists facing the same theme and observing their artistical choices is really interesting and educative .

Painted with aquarells on 200g/m2 Fabriano paper 24x32cm.

The same painting by others so far:
www.deviantart.com/montymouse/…

www.deviantart.com/virtuella/a…