Friday, February 23, 2007
Multi-use designs
Sometimes I find that a design may work well in several different mediums.  The very first project I ever developed was a watercolor painting of an old enamel teapot and lemons.  It started as a project for a drawing lesson.  My teacher had an old enamel teapot and set it up as a still life with a couple of lemons--a very simple set up.  I decided to paint it in watercolors.  Several years later, when I began to paint with Genesis Heat-set oils, I used the same design.  The original was a 9x12 watercolor.  The Genesis piece is 4x6.  I have taught both the watercolor and Genesis versions of this design several times.  Now, I am thinking about using this same design in a watercolor batik technique that I learned from Kathie George.  I have gotten a lot of mileage out of this design.

 
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