Waiting for Paint to Dry

/ Jodi

Woodland River Line and Wash Joanne Boom Thomas Watercolor Tutorial by Jodi McKinney First 9 x 12 1115 1

I am TRYING to learn
to wait for paint to dry.

It’s harder than you think!

This is my first 9 x 12 watercolor painting –
my largest to date.

It was done following a line and wash tutorial on ArtTutor by Joanne Boon Thomas.

AND with my very first few tubes of Winsor & Newton Professional Artist watercolor paint. OOOO LA LA!!
I treated myself to four tiny tubes – and was so excited to use Prussian Blue!

I see several things I would have liked to do different,
but it was a good practice in patience…

A practice in background, midground, and foreground…

Who knew it could be so fun…. waiting for paint to dry!!??!

Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi

59 thoughts on “Waiting for Paint to Dry”

  14. Love the reflections in the water! WOWZA! Look at you go, girl!!! 🎨😄💖 I have difficulty waiting for the paint to dry too – you can use a blow dryer on low heat to speed the drying process. Or if the weather is nice, I sometimes will place my painting in the sun for a few minutes. Happy you are taking a class and enjoying it AND doing so well at it! 😊

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  17. I love it! The color scheme is lovely, as are the reflections, and composition. It’s a big scary painting on such a large canvas isn’t it! You did very well with the size, and values I think. I hope you frame it!

    I totally understand how exciting it was to receive, and open those tubes of paint. I felt pretty much the same when my Turner watercolors arrived. I had so much fun setting up my palette, and squeezing a bit paint into each pan. I felt like an artist for a brief moment. 🙂

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  24. has Charlie been a naughty boy, sent to the dog house?! miss him 🙂 I had a couple thoughts: you’d said you wanted to try to paint McConnell park photo; I’ve looked at it again. what if you did 6 warms up, divided the image into 6 sections & painted each as individuals? getting a feel for parts… vs overwhelmed with the whole thing? then – you could more confidently do the whole image! just thinking it’d be easier…. lol cheers, Debi

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    • Awh! Thanks for asking about Charlie, Deb! He’s been being a pretty good boy these days – just the usual mischief, and he’ll be checking in soon. 🙂 That is a very good idea about dividing the photo into 6 parts. I would not have thought of that. I will add that to my to do list. wish me luck! 🙂 Thanks so much for thinking of strategies to help me grow and improve.

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