The Bamboo Grove (watercolor 5 x 7) SOLD
This was an exercise in mixing greens. The more I looked at this little clump of bamboo, the more I realized just how many greens were there. To get some of this variety on paper I used two blues, cobalt and phthalo and three yellows, hansa, new gamgee, and cadmium. As most of the greens I mixed were blue-greens I used a little bit of blue green’s compliment, red orange to set them off. Burnt sienna was perfect for the purpose without any mixing. I carried the blue-green red-orange motif into the path, painting the red Georgia soil it’s natural red and overlaying it with blue-green shadows.
Funny thing about red soil. My husband talks about red Georgia clay and how hard it is to dig in or clean out of clothes the way mid-westerners talk of mosquitoes and three feet of snow. But here in Oregon we have more than plenty of red clay. From the mid Willamette Valley south the ground is red as red can be. And yes it’s hard to wash out of pants.
