Painting a Fountain--watercolor with notes

This is one of hundreds of fountains in Kansas City--in fact it is often called the City of Fountains. When I used to live there, I visited the J.C.Nichols Fountain on the Plaza often--it's a great place for candlelight vigils.
I had an assignment to sketch KC--and although this fountain is almost TOO popular (tourists, weddings, models, you name it, the horse fountain makes a great backdrop!), it's one of my favorites.
In order to capture that lively, sparkling fountain, I used a lot more techniques than I usually do in my journal (on the opposite page you can see a bit of one of my more normal pages--a fairly straight watercolor, with an ink sketch of a young deer, and notes).
If you like, click on the image to take you to my Flickr album, where I added for notes that explain the techniques.
(Anonymous)
This water fountain is wonderful, so loose, yet detailed. What beautiful blues in this piece! Would love to know. Love looking at your sites.
Pamela
I'm glad you enjoyed the class!
(Anonymous)
Pablo
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