From a landscape perspective, India is one of those countries that stands out as having a lot of variety. Beaches, deserts, jungles, mountains, rivers, lakes, India really has it all represented. When thinking about a painting of India, the colour festival came to mind, it is an annual event where thousands of people throw pigments on each other. As a result, they are covered in bright yellow, green, blue, red orange, magenta, and every colour there is. In doing the internet research I found pictures of valleys and mountains absolutely covered in different coloured flowers. It was difficult to know if the pictures were even real, the colours looked so bright as if photo shopped! My goal for the painting was to represent a colourful India, but with a more grounded, realistic appearance. First, a pale green background was applied using nicosia green earth pigment (from Stoneground paint), then I applyied hundreds of daubs of colour starting with yellow in the foreground and working towards the background. Using this approach the intensity of the colour was cut down a bit, and your imagination can fill in the rest.
World Inspired Landscapes: India, watercolour 10 x 11" cold press, March 2023 (No. 3372)
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