Fuengirola Fishing Port

Fuengirola, Spain, Watercolour 15" x 11"

Here's an example of me creating hard and soft edges - so the background buildings and sky, the soft edge between the two, and then a hard edge on the middle ground shadows.  I am often asked about the showing of pencil marks in the finished painting.  I personally don't mind and where the paper is unpainted, I may not erase them.  The boat, for example, looks better with those marks - it might have been too bright without them over on the edge there.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms