Group Critique by Dan Hernandez

I was very nervous about what Dan Hernandez was going to say about my watercolor in his critique, but rather I felt his critique gave me a direction to complete my watercolor project.  It was my plan to include a water tower with the stormy sky.  I practiced how to paint the stomy sky many times, but I was not sure how big the water tower should be.  When I was introducing my watercolor to him in the group critique last week, I commented on my first impression of the water tower when I came to the States; it was an out of ordinary shape and it looked like a space ship.  I have seen many water towers since then, some look like a tin man from the Wizard of Oz, some just a ball (not scary), but the type I see in Beebe exit to highway 64 really looks like a spaceship.  I think that is the type I saw when I came to the States (Iowa) first time.  I was glad to hear when Dan suggested I should paint the watertower large.  I was stuck with the idea of painting something very small and flat on the bottom of the paper, so with his comment I could finally free myself from the tedious drawings on the bottom of the paper.