Hi, I love nature, and found this very calming. This is a water colour painting done by me. I took the glass off to eliminate glare, but could not focus properly as I could not stabilize the mobile phone when taking this photo.

by anssmile 12 May 2014

Thank you.

by anssmile 10 May 2014

I'm glad you liked it.

by anssmile 08 May 2014

Thank you very much.

If by pigments you mean the same type of paint, yes, I use exactly the same water colour paint for water colour washes and painting on dry paper.

I am not sure that I understand you correctly, but if you are talking of the painting above, it was done using a technique where you use normal water colour paint on a wet piece of paper (the special paper used to paint water colours on.) This dilute the paint a lot.

The wet paper also causes the different colours of paint to run into each other, causing colours to blend and have no clear edges. If you look at the sunset, you can not see where the yellow starts or ends. In some places you can not see where the blue, yellow or red starts or ends.

The mountains and grass were painted on dry paper, and you can see where the mountain starts and the sunset ends, or where the mountain ends and the grass starts. The paint was not diluted as much as for the sky.

I would call the sunset a colour wash. I am using exactly the same water colour paint for both types of painting.

Hope this helps!

by Leaha 10 May 2014

Enjoyed reading this explanation.

by anssmile 10 May 2014

I'm glad you liked it!

by anssmile 05 May 2014

Thank you. Yes, and doing a wash you have to finish the wash part before you stop. So you can not get distracted while painting. I simply love blending the colours for sunsets - you are never 100% sure with what you will end up with!

by anssmile 04 May 2014

Thank you.

by anssmile 04 May 2014

Thank you.

I use a special water colour painting technique to blend the colours for the sunset.

I've been trying to think how to blend the sunset colours in a design to resemble this water colour. I was too scared to try. I will think some more, and then try to get that effect.

Thanks for the encouragement!

by anssmile edited 04 May 2014

Thank you.

Someplace special - my imagination! Most scenes are from my imagination, or from a combination of things I like.

I am a perfectionist, so if I would paint something "real", I would never be satisfied as it would never look the same as the real thing. But painting stuff from your imagination is lots of fun!

by anssmile 04 May 2014

Thank you.