Monday, September 21, 2009

Edgar Allan Poe - watercolor




I painted this on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. Typical quick turnaround like most jobs I do for The Weekly Standard, but this one was different because it was painted traditionally. It would have been nice to have more time, but for the time given as well as my frame of mind last week, I feel quite good about the final product. I'm also very happy that I was asked to do a watercolor, as watercolor is one of my favorite mediums and I hope to do much more work like this in the future. For me, painting with watercolors is more intimate than other mediums, I feel my emotions of last week were captured in the painting.




My watercolor technique takes a long time, I build and build thin layer upon thin layer, I let the watercolor do what it's supposed to do. Let it drip, let it bleed, let it wander.





I love the texture and the transparency of the medium. There's some nice bits in there.






Here's my lousy sketch.

3 comments:

Mat said...

I love to see your watercolours, Jason. Layered, rich,deep darks, great tonal range. You understand the medium so well. A combination of sensitivity to the medium and bravura as an artist.

Mark McDonnell said...

Beautiful man . . . you really are such a talent. I'm glad I got a chance to meet you in Toronto. Very impressive skills man.

Best,

MAC

EDEN said...

AMAZING, VERY VERY GOOD !!