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  • Artist's Palette

    Spring

    May 24, 2018 3 minutes
    By Maryika Welter

    This is a simple dynamically created landscape. I call this my ‘rough as guts’ method. Results are not always predictable, but the end product is always legible. I sense spontaneous dribbles going in various directions; then filling in areas with blocks of intense colour. This intensity adds drama, especially when the sense of light comes from the back giving a morning or evening glow.

    MATERIALS

    • Art Spectrum pre-primed pastel paper (Cream).

    • A firm support board and tape to hold the pastel paper flat.

    • Art

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