©Robin Edmundson, 'Beehunter Creek, purple', watercolor, 16 x 20 inches. $475, unframed.
I'm doing a thing this year where I work from one reference photo and spend the year painting it so at the end of the year I have several versions and can let myself experiment in all the ways.
The reference photo was taken last March on a cloudy day. Mostly beige, but I love the lines. It's a good photo to work from. I want to emphasize here that the point is *not* to copy the photo, but to use it as a jumping off point.
This means that I'll leave things out, simplify, go crazy with color, experiment, paint different sizes, etc, and if I drift away from the literal, that's ok - great, even! [In the ref photo, there was a large tree branch coming in from the left. I left it out completely.]
©Robin Edmundson, 'Beehunter Creek - 856', watercolor 8 x 10 inches. $190, unframed.
©Robin Edmundson, 'Beehunter Creek', pencil study, 4 x 6 inches.
I have a couple more paintings of this scene already in the works and I'll post them as they're done.
