Using just black, gray, white, and gold watercolors and gouache (a type of paint similar to watercolor but more opaque), Crystal Liu (leeyoh) captures a scene in nature. Liu, who lives in San Francisco, California, uses a poetic title to set a mysterious mood in her 2017 work “the moon and the tides, ‘a rocky start.’ ”
Liu creates her own patterned paper using a marbling technique. She floats paint on top of water, then lays paper over it to transfer the marble pattern. The artist uses gold and white spots to represent the movement of water. Irregular black and gray shapes represent jagged rocks as a glowing moon dips behind mountains in the background. How does Liu build each part of this composition using pattern?
In this 2017 painting, Crystal Liu (leeyoh) paints a scene in nature. Liu, who lives in San Francisco, California, titles the work “the moon and the tides, ‘a rocky start.’
” The poetic name helps the artist set a mysterious mood.
Liu creates her own patterned paper for her artwork. The artist uses gold and white spots to show the movement of water. Black and gray shapes represent jagged rocks. A glowing moon dips behind mountains in the background. How does Liu use patterns to represent each different part of this work?
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