I am trying new techniques in my watercolor paintings. The result I'm hoping for is to figure out which would be best for an upcoming children's book that I'm writing. It has a lot of flowers and bunnies and such in it, but the simplistic, very muted colors that I see in most bunny children's books just doesn't do it for me. I want vivid, rich, beautiful, so I'm trying various things with these ACEOs to see what I like best for my new book.
This is a wonderful contrasty piece showing a little skier at dusk. What do you think of it?? Is it a good piece? needs more detail? more color? less color?

ACEO Watercolor Skier
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May 6th, 2009 at 2:08 am
Good contrast. Unfortunately it's hard to see the details on a scan from an AOCE (which is very interesting -I'd never heard of those before).
Keep up the good work!
Gavin