Around campus, someone drives around in a shiny metallic-pink Volkswagen beetle and today it was parked on Coffee street. I had seen it drive by a few times over the last month and thought about how to paint it, so today I took a shot at it. As I painted, several people stopped to take pictures... of the car, not me, and another person admired this painting and said they had respect for what I was doing to which I genuinely thanked them.
Barbie car spring v2, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
This was the first attempt at the scene, but the car's shapes and the exact shade of metallic-magenta was not correct. In the second version I kept the car palette closer to magenta (PR122) and flattened out the value structure. I still missed on getting the sky and tree reflections accurate. Maybe a picture would have been easier!
Barbie car spring v1, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
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