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Watercolour Demo - Fly Agaric Mushrooms 2nd Part

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framed mushrooms
OK - for those painters of you who are sitting there with paintbrush in mid-air waiting to get at those mushrooms again here are the next steps!
 
 
 
 
(Here is Part 1 - https://eastwitching.com/2013/02/09/art-demo-watercolour-fly-agaric-mushrooms/

But first - here is how they have ended today after the work I did on them this afternoon…I popped them in a virtual frame to give them that magical space that all art needs.
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Please click on the images as they will come up nice and big for you to see.
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I read somewhere that the art of good painting is knowing where to stop and that a painting can be interesting at several points in its creation.
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I just hope I’ve picked the right place to get off!
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Away with the Fairies

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There is something very attractive about Fly Agaric mushrooms to me. Perhaps it is their association with fairy-tales and magic that appeals to my inner child.

I suddenly had the urge to paint one a few days ago and so I scoured the internet for images and began sketching my own impression.

I did a single one first so that I could study its form very intensely but already my impatient mind is galloping ahead - imagining misty scenes of the tangled roots of great oaks smothered in swathes of the infamous red and white topped fungi with perhaps a grumpy old toad sitting on one here and there!

Frog prince 2

I used Arches Hot pressed 90lb paper and painted it dry on dry except for the background which I did wet into wet to add some runs and mystery.

 

More coming up - watch this space.