In the course of exploring various watercolour techniques I came up the painting seen here, 'Alien Hand...'. I wonder what people would think of this painting without the title? It kind of looks like an octopus trying to stick it's head into a vase, or some kind of incredible-hulk insect reaching for the sky. Hmmm, those sound like pretty good ideas for future works. The main technique used was to apply a very wet wash (like a miniature pond) onto the canvas and let it dry. The next day I looked at it and tried to imagine what it could be. I applied the red-blue washes on top to create the shape of the hand, and finished with the earthy colours on the bottom that make the terrain, and put in a few dark trees on the horizon. I used a similar strategy for 'Dream Tree'.
Happy Days (Alien Hand on a Post Apocolyptic Earth), watercolour 11 x 5" cold press 2005 (No. 1497)
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