Watercolor painting by
Cheryl A Nocera
Cheryl A Nocera's watercolor learning experience:
In this art project I was asked to draw an egg and it started off that way but I got side tracked. I started off drawing an egg and I realized it was bigger than what it should have been. At that point I drew a smaller egg which looked like an egg, but then I decided to get creative and drew the sun inside a heart which was inside the smaller egg. The larger egg I made darker and as the shadow.‘
I was listening to music from a Soundscape channel and which is nature sounds with all different types of classical music and just went with the flow. As I started to look at the picture I saw something else. So I started painting wave like lines above the eggs and then I mixed the colors and started painting and blending the lines together. The sky came out purple and then I remember the “Lifting the Paint” technique and the colors on the right side of the painting started to come out lighter and I kept the colors on the left side darker to go with the shadow of the egg.
Next, on the upper left hand corner I used the “Dry Brush Technique” and it started to look a lot like a storm leaving. As the it started to look more like a storm I felt this adrenaline come over me. At the point I got an energy and then creative. Now the picture started to come alive and it looked like storm clouds breaking up. As I looked at the picture it still did not look complete and then I had to give a sand like effect. That is when the calming started to come in. I did this by getting the wet brush and lightly touch a color that was already mixed and paint. Then I saw the painting come to life.
Therefore, I felt alive while I was drawing this painting. I know it seems a little strange but while I was painting it I felt energy from this picture. When I look at this painting I feel like I am looking at a piece of myself. I love storms I think that this why this was important to me. I believe this painting represents a piece of me and hopefully when other people look at this picture it will represent a part of them.
