Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

Place Rene Princeteau in Libourne, a bright square in this town in South West France

Libourne, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"

A 'round' square if I can call it that, in central Libourne in South West France.  So a few of the buildings here are curved, so introduces a few challenges when trying to get their shape looking correct.  I went with a loose approach and introduced a shadow in the foreground and a few figures in the shade.  Cars very loosely painted also, using quite a bit of wet in wet technique.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

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Watermill Tuscany 2018 watercolour course painting #8 - Visit to a local monastery

Day 5 as painting tutor on last years course at the Watermill in Tuscany and a visit to nearby 'Il Convento dei Carmine', a privately owned monastery with ancient cloisters and frescoes, gardens and views.  Lots of different views around the monastery and the internal cloisters (very tricky with lots of columns, shadows and perspective.  I decided to do an external shot with my demo and invented a gardener pushing a wheelbarrow. 

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

 

Pisa Shadows - a future YouTube Video?

Pisa, Italy, 15" x 11"

Just down from the Tower of Pisa, a wide street and a lovely shadow across a building at the back of a square.  I have videoed this but undecided whether to publish or not.  I think the theme would have been something like how to make dominant shadows a bit more interesting rather than a big dark area.  Well please let me know if you think it would make a worthy YouTube video!

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms

 

Latest watercolour demo featuring a bit of splattering!

Here's my latest watercolour demo up on my YouTube Channel (well over 30 videos on there now - all different subjects, and all watercolour of course).  This time I feature a bit of splattering with clear water into a damp wash....

 

 

Fore Street Bodmin Cornwall

Bodmin, Cornwall, 15" x 11"

A painting based on an old photo of mine taken on a very brief trip through Bodmin.  This is Fore Street a main shopping street for the town.  An exercise in connecting the various key objects in the painting, the figures, shadows, cars, one side of the street to the other.  Also an exercise in values with those dark shadows and the light hitting the left side of the street.  With the shadows I try to vary the tones also in that area.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms.

 

Calle Larga, Venice

Venice, Italy, 22" x 15".

The Calle Larga and looking at the State Archive building with those horizontal lines.  This was a plein air demo to my group at the recent Painting Holiday I ran in Venice.  This was an early morning painting and not too many crowds to contend with.  Another nice spot in this square is to go on the other side of the bridge and do a contra jour scene looking up the canal.  I took a photo so I might do that sometime!

 

Tythe Barn Laycock Village

Laycock village, UK, 15" x 11"

Another plein air done on the same day I did my recent YouTube video with the bodycam strapped to my chest.  Well this was an afternoon painting and the bodycam had been surgically removed so a I had a bit more freedom again.  This is the end of East Street if anyone knows this pretty village and a view of the Tythe Barn. 

Painted on Saunders Waterford Cold Press paper, 300 gms.

 

Steps to the Fortress of Verrucola, Tuscany

Verrucola, Tuscany, 15" x 22".

A plein air painting from the recent workshop I ran in Tuscany with the Watermill at Posara.  Painted in the afternoon after a hearty stew lunch at the Castillo restaurant.  Quite changing lighting conditions and you had to memorise how the shadows were when you first embarked on the painting.  Luckily we had a group of people who went up the steps to the Fortress so we had an inclination how the figure's shadow would fall.  Being a portrait orientation, what worked well I think were the vertical bands of light and shade, and the shadows coming across the foreground.

Painted on Saunders Waterford paper, 300 gms NOT surface.

 

Columns and cafe in the Plaza Major - Madrid

Madrid, Spain, 15" x 11"

I took an old photo I had taken and tried to make something of it.  The main thing I change when painting based on a photo is moving the people around.  My photo had loads of people which I reduced in numbers for my painting.  I especially wanted some people of the left interacting with the shadows and columns.

 Painted on Saunders Waterford, 300 gms, NOT paper.

Venice Practice #7 - Using my 3-colour palette

Venice, Italy, 15" x 11".

Well I tried not to get the bridge dead centre, and I think it's just off.  Maybe distracted by the left hand boat and figures.  With the narrow canals and bright sunshine, reflected light can light up buildings which otherwise could be quite dark compared to the values on the other side of the canal.  I decided right at the end to have a foreground shadow crossing the whole scene - just a very faint glaze of a greyish wash when everything was dry.