Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

15 Minute Sketch on the back of another painting - Beach at La Cala, Spain

Cala de Mijas, Spain, 20" x 14".

What do you do when you've done a painting, you have 15 minutes to spare, your palette is still loaded and ready to go in front of you...?  Answer, you turn your paper over and do another quickie!  So this was a made up composition of the beach at La Cala (sorry to the locals if I have changed the palm trees/buildings around) and just experimenting.  Key focal point of course are the two figures with a bit of negative painting.  All done with one brush - a large mop brush with a good point.

 

A 3 colour painting - Yachts moored up along the Bristol Waterfront

Bristol, England, 22" x 15".

A 3 colour picture (I used Winsor Red, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow and Neutral Tint - I don't class the last as a colour!) so a limited palette all delivered from my little nimble Frank Herring Palette (I can't afford those posh copper ones, nice as they are).  So the subject is a row of small yachts moored up on Hotwells end of the Bristol Waterfront - a large harbour in central Bristol.  May be I did cheat with another 'colour' at the end - some highlighting with white gouache!

 

A curvy roundabout outside Coutras Railway Station, SW France

Coutras, France, 15" x 11".

Roundabout outside the entrance to the Coutras Railway Station in SW France.  A couple of figures on the right, balancing the row of cars stretching out to the left.  I was aiming for maximum contrast against the parked cars with some really dark background which was neutral tint with ultramarine blue.  The curve of the road leads the eye into the composition and emphasised by a lifted out curve on the road surface and some dry brush strokes.