New Watercolor

I am still working from some images of a new pond (a bi-product of the recently built Pioneer Crossing Highway). I have done a few sketches of this clump of trees perched above very still water. I did this very fast color study to identify what color direction I was going ... in hind site I should have done a color wheel with a clear color scheme and swatches, maybe even on watercolor paper.



I have a few images I am working from, as you can see. I am eventually going to render some of these in oil, but I am liking the process of watercolor, and its unexpected detours. My goal is to work looser but with more focus on emotional color and complex values. The series of paintings will help with that.



This represents the first hour of the painting; loose and colorful. I am planning to use some masking fluid to isolate these initial values, in a few places; in the top of the tree for example. I hate the hard edges and non-graceful shapes that Friskit makes, I might try some white crayon in combination with liquid masking.