Yesterdays mistake

Half way through my second attempt of the drawing of the color fountain I realized what I did wrong the first time. I mixed to many colors.

Color fountain 2th sketch

The idea was to make a lot of patches of colors. Then I would use my eraser as a kind of pencil and remove part of the pigment. That would give me the shape of falling water.
By adding a color on top and blending all the colors I would get something that would resemble the picture in my mind.

But that’s what I tried yesterday and it resulted in a drawing with a lot more brown than I liked.
I’ll have to think about this some more. There must be a way to draw this picture.

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Inspiration

Actually it was a waste to throw the 2th sketch out. It would have been an even greater waste if I had covered all those colors. It’s a lot of work to create a lot of colored patches and it could look really nice.
Let’s see what happens if I fill the sheet with colored patches and make the colors deeper, more pronounced.

Patched

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Julian Beever makes pavement drawings. Large three dimensional pictures that from the right angle look very real. He also does some oil paintings.
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