Well, firstly, seasons greetings to all my reader. I hope 2017 turns out less fretful and more hopeful than it looks like it’s going to be around here at present.Still, it was hope which lingered after Pandora opened her box of tricks.
This image is for a company which uses my images. They asked me for something to illustrate “fresh cotton” scent, whatever that is. They mentioned cottages, cotton clothes on the line and greenery, so I took the image of an old painting of mine which I had sold, found a cottage and added some sheets. I hope they like it. I think it really meets the brief, but then you never know.
Other landscapes can be found on my website: grahammcquadefineart.com
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Beautiful work! I can almost smell the fresh sheets!
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Very evocative! And creative of you! But wouldn’t putting up those sheets so high take a giantess to handle? (No one would notice that except an old crone like me who has hung sheets out to dry on a line!)
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Yeah, I think you’re right, Carol. I was trying too hard on for the theatrical entry and it makes it look like domestic bliss in a doll’s house. I suppose I could pull the foliage of the trees down and lower the sheets, but first I will see whether the client is as eagle eyed.
I appreciate your comment, you get so little criticism in these forums and its very valuable having someone looking from a different perspective – if you’ll excuse the pun.
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You are gracious to put up with my nit-picking. To be clear I am not suggesting revising what you have done.
Still, if you don’t mind my going on and on here, a wooden prop (a stripped sapling or 2×2″ lumber)was sometimes used to keep those sheets as high as you have pictured them. (It was removed so someone could hang sheets up or take them down.) But propping would make the line raise, or swoop up to a point, right at the prop, and then fall sloping somewhat toward each end. An excess of detail! Just information for next time maybe. But the angles are interesting to see. Please forgive me!
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Yes, I’ll buy that; a prop just out of view. It will certainly save a repaint and offer a plausible explanation for some dodgy perspective.
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amazing watercolour painting. It definitely makes me think of a cottage and could see how it would work for a cotton add. I’m amazed by how well you captured those tiny flowers.
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Thanks Shawn. They were masked out and retain quite a bit of white paper. After dabbing in bright colour I tidied up the shapes with some background colours, leaving plenty of white.
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