"Princess Dreams"
This was the hardest painting so far for this challenge. I almost gave up half way through, but then kept going, so I wouldn't miss a day in this Leslie Saeta 30 day challenge. This is my daughter and 2 granddaughters. We've always called our daughter "our princess", so now there are 3 princesses. That makes me the queen, you understand! :) I used a past design sketch (pictured below) for the background idea and that actually made this painting a lot harder, because my painting got way too busy. So, I had to scrub out many areas and also do unifying glazes to pull shapes together. This process of painting is called an illusionary effect. I'm teaching a workshop through the Minnesota Watercolor Society in Hopkins, MN next weekend about this process. It took me about 5 years to figure out how to do this. I remember telling my Senior Center class that I was going to figure out how to make things look ghost-like, and that was my major goal at that time, some 24 years ago. "Princess Dreams" is watercolor, is 10.5" x 10.5", matted to size 17" x 17",and is available for $300, plus shipping.
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