Joyful Moment

by Catherine Ludwig Donleycott

Original - Sold

Price

$650

Dimensions

22.000 x 30.000 x 0.020 inches

Title

Joyful Moment

Artist

Catherine Ludwig Donleycott

Medium

Painting - Watercolor On Paper

Description

Influenced by Northern Lights, this Joyful Moment seascape was painted intuitively from many wonderful memories of the beaches along the Atlantic Ocean! I grew up either visiting my grandparents place at the beach on Long Island at Breezy Point or Rockaway Point or living there with my family. Since then, I plan as many trips to the beach at Delray Beach in Florida or Wilmington, North Carolina, the Outer Banks, and Myrtle Beach as I can. In between, I mentally take trips there in my paintings. This painting inspired and is very similar in color to "Winds Up Let's Sail."

This painting:
* Won 2nd out of 149 entries in "Watercolor Abstracts" Contest May 08, 2022.
* Won 1st out of 63 entries in "A New Life" Contest! 1/29/2022
* Won 3rd Tie out of 100 entries in "Abstract Landscapes by Watercolor Painters" 3/31/2021.
* After 10 bids, the Original SOLD at the Raleigh North Carolina VAE Auction! March 2021

Some background about how I actually created and named this painting:
I just love playing with color in watercolors. I feel almost like I'm "cheating," because I often have absolutely no idea where the painting is going to take me. In this instance I wanted to try letting color run down the page, like I had seen another artists do, and again like another artists who keeps light in the center of her paintings, I also wanted to do that. I like to have a bright cheerful yellow and white center. It is also great to see what darker colors do when they run into the yelllow. So first I put on the colors, then as they start to dry a little, I added salt to the darker sections to get a starburst effect--never know what will evolve with that. I put a little salt in to the "sky" area.. just because...AFTER I let the colors dry, I look at the painting to see what I see in it. What does it look like? Then, I added some twigs and grasses, and oh, some wonderful shadows, or make something into a flower by adding a stem to a salt burst.. and I felt incredibly JOYFUL at my results. So I called it "Joyful Moment."

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March 27th, 2021

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