Having a broken wrist means that you can’t carry too much equipment to your Art Society meeting. So, I just took a piece of watercolour paper, my Winsor & Newton pan set and one brush last week with a view to having a play with the paint. This was the result – I particularly like …
Tag: Loose Watercolour
May 31 2016
It’s in the eyes!
May 22 2016
Spring Blossom
Apr 11 2016
A Host of Daffodils
Mar 19 2016
A bit of fun!
This week at art club I fancied painting something a bit light hearted and fun. I had a photo of three hedgehogs and decided to paint them in a “loose” style with not too much detail. What do you think? The original was whisked away by my friend Ken who was much taken by it …
Feb 25 2016
Using Phthalo Blue for my background
This weeks subject for my classes is Snowdrops and over the past few weeks ideas about how to paint them have been going through my mind. At Art Club I had finished the piece I was working on and wanted something to do for a few minutes. Using a scrap piece of paper I quickly …
Jan 10 2016
January Sunrise
Whilst driving to my Ware class yesterday morning (9 January) I saw a spectacular sunrise. The sun was behind a line of leafless trees which were in silhouette. During the lunch break between classes I quickly painted a 4 x 6 inch watercolour sketch of the sunrise and used a black pen to show where …
Nov 03 2015
My Video is on YouTube!
Nov 01 2015
My First Video!
We’ve spent a happy couple of hours this afternoon making a video of me painting poppy heads in watercolour. After a few false starts working out what I was going to say and trying not to sound too “telephony” (if you know what I mean) I managed to complete a picture of poppy heads in …
Oct 28 2015
Crab Apple Blossom
As a beginner most of us want to draw out the subject before we go anywhere near the paper with paint as we are not confident enough. I now tend to draw as little as I can get away with unless the subject is particularly difficult as I think that you get a freer painting …
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