Monochromatic Colors: Cobalt
A few days ago I was bord silly and a little depressed, so a friend said, “Paint something!”, so I did.
4″ x 6″ watercolor, 9/10/2009
It’s not nearly as bored looking or depressed as I was feeling, and I rediscovered just what a lovely color real cobalt is. This isn’t a hue, this is the real thing. And whether or not that’s obvious from the scan, I don’t know, but it’s obvious working with it.
Incidentally, another friend suggested I look into deviantART for printing. Now that they’ve significantly changed their TOS since I bailed on them years ago, I just might–I know some people would like prints of these little watercolor ’sketches’. Maybe more than a few? Well, I’m working on getting something going with that–it’s easy enough to satisfactorily scan a 4″ x 6″ painting at a high enough resolution to allow the purchase of 8″ x 10″ prints that would still look good if someone wanted, but…my scanner isn’t 12″ x 16″. And I’d like to offer prints of my old paintings (how many people have offered to buy Emberhouse and flaked on me? Really, I can count the number and need more than one hand for it), but again, scanner = small, and while I can borrow a DSL camera, I can’t take a decent picture with it to save my life. So I need to find somewhere that can do high quality scans of large artwork.
