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Janet L. Wissmann, Watercolorist
Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin
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THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN SOLD.

Original Watercolor Painting
Sun Conures (SOLD)

Sun Conures Original Watercolor Painting
This painting has been SOLD.

More about the Painting, Sun Conures
Sun Conures -Original Watercolor Painting The original painting has been SOLD.
Wow! There is nothing as bright and colorful as a Sun Conure! Two Sun Conures at the zoo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, inspired this watercolor painting by Janet Wissmann. Birds like this prompt Janet to paint with colors that she rarely gets to use with dog and horse art: cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, and sap green. She had some fun with textures, dropped wet in wet, and encouraged the very dynamic payne's gray to bleed and blossom a bit.

Click on the picture at left to view an enlarged image. It's only then that you will be able to appreciate the texture and flow of the various paints. Note the dark blue in the upper right corner. This is Payne's grey -- a mixture of ivory black and ultramarine blue. The ultramarine blue component is well known for its reactions while painting wet in wet, and when a bit of pure water is dropped into an area of wet Payne's gray the artist is rarely disappointed. The intensity, size, and direction of the blooms can't be predicted with precision. This unpredictability is one of the main facets of transparent watercolor's timeless appeal. If you look even more closely, you can see a bit of the lovely granulation for which Payne's gray is also famous.
True to form, there is no white paint in this watercolor painting. Even the white of the tail feathers' midveins are just the white of the watercolor paper left unpainted.
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