I would like to invite you to the contest that is running by @rashid001 and if you would like to have a look, here is the link:
It is Saturday and I am back from my night shift and glad to have some time to grab my sketchbook for the contest that I wanted to take part.
The topic is sunset and that is something that many artists try to do because of magic of colours:
the sky over horizon has multiple layers of colours and that one is slowly running into other makes it really very special.
the best sunset is over water surface, the reason is that then you have the mirror reflection of that beauty one more time
What material is best for sunset? In my opinion, it is either Pastel or Watercolour. I decided to try watercolour for that, because this is my favourite material and also I decided to combine it with a boat and little seascape, I hope you like it.
The secret of any successful work is to think about the topic what and how you want to present. My main job was to create beautiful evening sun. So I decided to start with horizon line and create level over water first, usually the sky close to horizon is yellow and orange, it is then goes slightly into red, then violet and then blue. I thought sky without cloud will be too boring, so created a big cloud.
Here I wanted to show you that I used soft pastel, it is pure pigment that is why very vibrant, it is easy to spread using fingers, to blend the colours. Also, now you see I created more or less mirrored reflection of sky.
Here I wanted to show you that in order to create some live for my sunset I was thinking about boat and on left hand of my sketchbook I made few different type of boats, from front, or side, with and without sails. I decided to do without sails because the boat is in the middle of my drawing in front of sun
Then I drawn small part of land on right with some ruins and boats and on left just a little hill.
I would like to invite following users for contest @barski, @enamul17, @shiftitamanna