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18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on watercolor canvas

Here is a fishing painting in my watercolor/folk art style. This style of painting evolved from painting watercolors over several decades. I'm a "self-taught" (how I hate that term) artist, i.e. I learned painting by painting -- and evaluating each one. What worked, what didn't, and hoped to remember those lessons... Iffy. When watercolor canvas came along, I adopted it and used it with acrylics which produced much more vivid colors and offered the ability to varnish the painting and frame it without glass. (Matting and framing a picture this size as a watercolor would often cost twice the price I was asking for the painting.)

My son doesn't like the thin white lines between objects in the painting that I use to keep everything from bleeding into everything. But what does he know? I like the effect. Black ink lines would work too, of course.

Description
18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on watercolor canvas

Here is a fishing painting in my watercolor/folk art style. This style of painting evolved from painting watercolors over several decades. I'm a "self-taught" (how I hate that term) artist, i.e. I learned painting by painting -- and evaluating each one. What worked, what didn't, and hoped to remember those lessons... Iffy. When watercolor canvas came along, I adopted it and used it with acrylics which produced much more vivid colors and offered the ability to varnish the painting and frame it without glass. (Matting and framing a picture this size as a watercolor would often cost twice the price I was asking for the painting.)

My son doesn't like the thin white lines between objects in the painting that I use to keep everything from bleeding into everything. But what does he know? I like the effect. Black ink lines would work too, of course.