Thursday, January 07, 2010

Trying new things

It' s sometimes fun to try different methods and media - here's a watercolour on masa paper that I did before Christmas. The crinkled masa paper creates interesting textures and the pigments look more vibrant.

Autumn Gold -
14x10, watercolour on masa paper

5 comments:

Cindi said...

ruth.. thanks for stopping by my blog... i'm so happy to have a link to yours so i can stop in at any time and look at your wonderful paintings...

i really enjoy your style... and am so lucky to have gotten a fantastic christmas card from you, in the card exchange this year!! thank you!!

Teresa Palomar Lois said...

It does look great Ruth, those blues are lush!

Unknown said...

Thank you Cindi! I'm so pleased you liked the card, it was alot of fun to paint it for you :)

Thank you Teresa, the blues and greens both worked really well in this one.

cathyswatercolors said...

I really like the effect of the masa paper I tried this once and really enjoyed it. Your colors are beautiful

Luzia said...

It looks very expressive and interesting. Greetings from Luzia.