Béatrice Morel

Recently I came across the work of Béatrice Morel. Her rendering of horses is what attracted me to her paintings. She truly masters water and communicates her passion for watercolor in her paintings and the result is breathtaking.

Here is a quick overview of her approach:

• she paints on an incline to allow for the movement of water and paint to create the horse's mane
• to save time before the canvas dries, she uses three brushes, one each for red, yellow and blue
• she then applies on the wet canvas, lines of blue while leaving much space between the lines and lets the water spread the colours horizontally and vertically to create the horse's mane
• after the blue has spread, she adds red lines. She ensures her brush is loaded with paint. She does the same with the yellow
• she then continues stroking the canvas with various colours to encourage the colours to mix
• for the other areas of the horse, she uses the three primary colours but dots the wet surface and again lets the water mix the colours
• when the canvas is dry she paints the eye with very dark mix and adds other details

Here are some of her paintings:

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Have a great week and Merry Christmas

Danielle