Pont de la Terrade

Painting \ Architecture | 04/25/07 @975 | Excorbac | critiques (22) | views (1064)

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I like old stones and ancient buildings. There are loads of them around here where I live. This scene can be seen at roughly 6 1/2 miles from my home. It's in the old city of Aubusson, Creuse (23), slightly south-west of center of France (grab an atlas !).
The bridge is called "le pont de la Terrade" and crosses over the muddy waters of the river Creuse. The medieval building is now a antiquarian shop.

4 days of works using:
Watercolours: Talens, Rowney-Manet
Brushes: Talens, Raphaël
Paper: Canson "Aquarelle Fontenay" (300g/m²)
Reference: a picture I shot with my cellular phone ! I removed few details : TV antennas and electric wires mostly.

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danheacock

04/25/07 @987

Very nice, I love the style...good portrayal of the muddy waters...love this type of European architecture!

Madanapale

04/25/07 @990

Very good details!....beautiful lighting!
Carlos

rhalaquist

04/25/07 @009

nicely done

Wallace

04/25/07 @010

Nice work Vincent!

as I already mentioned, watercolours are damn difficult
to handle but you seem very confident with it

Great colours and handling of the shadows

I have the feeling something is missing in the upper left corner
as the overall balance is a bit heavy on the right part

tres jolie

+ 9

Daykan

04/25/07 @011

very nice!

Excorbac

04/25/07 @021

Thx for C&C folks.
@Wallace : you are right, Vincent. If you take a look at the reference, you see that I didn't paint few buildings because I didn't want this piece to be too busy and loaded with details (there are enough of them here, no?

). But now I realise I should have painted at least the one that is seen in the distance "over the bridge", on the left of picture

By the way, Vincent, I find it MUCH MORE difficult to paint digitally than with watercolours (I know because I tried to a few times, but I don't think the results are worth seeing for the many talented artists here at GFX...

)

sodawax

04/25/07 @073

Ooh, I like, I like... Very nice. The deatail is great. Very enjoyable to look at.

alebrije

04/25/07 @107

Nice and soft colors! Good technique.

+9
I think the water needs a little more lights and reflections.

Inabottle

04/25/07 @123

like it very much the colors look a lil odd, but the archetecture is quite beautiful.

ARZILLIER66

04/25/07 @134

Nice Vincent!
I like the composition, great use of watercolor

cnell

04/25/07 @137

lovely painting and the subject is nice. i wish the water was more fluid, seems too, ummm, solid? but very well drawn and a creative piece.

claudia

ps...nice attention to detail too

razpna

04/25/07 @239

lovely style,but i don`t understand that is water

except that +8

xovika

04/25/07 @324

wow! beautiful!

BillCorbett

04/26/07 @522

Excellent watercolour work

thomasM

04/26/07 @738

beautiful and very exact work

ther is just something about the water and you could try to put in some darker areas
but it`s still amazing

deManuel

04/26/07 @825

I agree with alebrije comment. Excellent work.

ViolentContact

04/27/07 @801

Good work

The details, lighting and colours are very nice, the composition works well for me... agree with that about the water though.
+9 very nice

deandude

05/01/07 @755

very well painted....excellent skill with watercolor

cupcake

05/04/07 @675

Excellent work on this watercolor.
+10

cgaddict

06/13/08 @226

Nothing short of amazing, you truly are a master of watercolor. Excellent composition and masterful use of color.

+10

johanflood

06/26/08 @376

I agree with cgaddict. + 10 and then some extra points for this being in watercolour wich I think is really hard to master.

Excorbac

06/27/08 @050

Thanks everyone, from sodawax to johanflood. That said, I do not feel that watercolours is hard to master. To my opinion, it's the easiest medium and/or just a matter of feeling. You have it or you haven't, like someone playing guitar can play it with a feeling basis, like Jimi Hendrix. Or not, like Joe Satriani, who is the absolute crap to me (nothing interesting with him except a damn good technique, that's for sure). I know this is going to take me ages before I am clever enough to post anything painted digitally. But I promise I'll try.

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Pont de la Terrade

Painting \ Architecture | 04/25/07 @975 | Excorbac | critiques (22) | views (1064)

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