Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

Latest YouTube video - what brushes, paper, paints do I use?

As I have been asked a few times - what paints/brushes/paper do you use - this is my Nov 2018 version...

 

 

 

Latest Watercolour Demo - Talking about textural effects in Watercolour

Here's my latest video up on my YouTube Channel and this time covering different techniques to create texture of objects - a shiny surface, pebbles on a beach and so on.  Hope you like it and send me your comments please!

 

 

Workshop demo painting - Dartmouth Inner Harbour

Dartmouth, Devon, 15" x 11"

A demo painting from quite a while ago.  The Inner Harbour at Dartmouth in Devon, UK.  An exercise in laying down a wash (the water), some careful painting around the foreground boats, composition with the placing of the boats, values (as in the dark of the reflections around the lighter value of the tops of the boats and a nit of looseness (the far boats in the shadow of the buildings).

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

 

Blog article from Ledbury Art Society on my recent two hour demo there

Tim Wilmot - Ledbury Scenes in Watercolour

 

The Market House, Ledbury

Tim has a very loose style and this enabled him to complete two paintings in less than two hours. Impressive! He brought along two photographs of Ledbury: the Market House and Church Lane looking towards the church tower and spire.

Based in Bristol, Tim specialises in vibrant watercolours exploiting the medium with tone and light. He has painted all his life and is completely self-taught. He loves to paint landscapes and is well known for his harbour and boat paintings. Nearly all his landscapes include figures and cars to give focal interest to the scene. You can see more of his work on his website http://www.timwilmot.com/ His YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/timwilmot has more than 40 full length demonstration videos with commentary.

 

Below you'll find images showing the progress of this and his second painting and also one of his  YouTube videos.

Pencil sketch

Wet sky wash

For both demonstrations Tim used a quarter sheet of 300gsm Saunders Waterford watercolour paper taped around the edges with masking tape. He doesn't stretch the paper so it does cockle a bit as he works but it dries flat. The first step for each was to quickly sketch the scenes using a 3B pencil. The drawings were kept simple and it was at this stage that he made decisions about what to put in and what to leave out. For instance, in the Market House scene the photograph showed lots of white vans parked between the Market House and the right hand edge of the image, presumably it was a market day, and there were no figures nor was there a van to the left of the Market House blocking the bus bay.

 

The next step was applying background washes while avoiding the light and white areas. This was done with a large synthetic mop brush. Later he used a smaller squirrel mop and a No. 8 round to add some hints of detail.

 

I was fascinated by his palette - Winsor red, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre and neutral tint. He also had a cerulean blue but didn't make much use of this.

 

More washes

These demonstrations gave dramatic and lively results. I wonder if any of our members will have the courage to attempt such a loose and dynamic way of painting. I think its worth trying. The experiment will only cost you paper and a little time. Perhaps its worth setting yourself a time limit, somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes will force you to simplify.

 

 

 

 

 

Shadows washed in

 

The Market House

 

 

The second painting shows the famous detached bell-tower which sits alongside Ledbury Parish Church. To the left is the Prince of Wales, surely the best pub in the county with its wide selection of real ales. Also on the left in the foreground is the entrance to the Weavers Gallery where Ledbury Art Society holds its exhibitions. Behind the railings and out of the picture is the Butchers Row Museum housed in a timber frame building that used to stand in a row of buildings in the middle of the High Street. Beyond the pub and not visible here is a magnificent timber framed building, formerly a Grammar School it now house the Heritage Centre.

 

Church Street sketch

 

Darker tones added

 

 

More darks

 

Church Street - the completed demonstration

 

The full article is here

Blog article from Ledbury Art Society on my recent two hour demo there

Tim Wilmot - Ledbury Scenes in Watercolour

 

The Market House, Ledbury

Tim has a very loose style and this enabled him to complete two paintings in less than two hours. Impressive! He brought along two photographs of Ledbury: the Market House and Church Lane looking towards the church tower and spire.

Based in Bristol, Tim specialises in vibrant watercolours exploiting the medium with tone and light. He has painted all his life and is completely self-taught. He loves to paint landscapes and is well known for his harbour and boat paintings. Nearly all his landscapes include figures and cars to give focal interest to the scene. You can see more of his work on his website https://www.timwilmot.com/ His YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/timwilmot has more than 40 full length demonstration videos with commentary.

 

Below you'll find images showing the progress of this and his second painting and also one of his  YouTube videos.

Pencil sketch

Wet sky wash

For both demonstrations Tim used a quarter sheet of 300gsm Saunders Waterford watercolour paper taped around the edges with masking tape. He doesn't stretch the paper so it does cockle a bit as he works but it dries flat. The first step for each was to quickly sketch the scenes using a 3B pencil. The drawings were kept simple and it was at this stage that he made decisions about what to put in and what to leave out. For instance, in the Market House scene the photograph showed lots of white vans parked between the Market House and the right hand edge of the image, presumably it was a market day, and there were no figures nor was there a van to the left of the Market House blocking the bus bay.

 

The next step was applying background washes while avoiding the light and white areas. This was done with a large synthetic mop brush. Later he used a smaller squirrel mop and a No. 8 round to add some hints of detail.

 

I was fascinated by his palette - Winsor red, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre and neutral tint. He also had a cerulean blue but didn't make much use of this.

 

More washes

These demonstrations gave dramatic and lively results. I wonder if any of our members will have the courage to attempt such a loose and dynamic way of painting. I think its worth trying. The experiment will only cost you paper and a little time. Perhaps its worth setting yourself a time limit, somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes will force you to simplify.

 

 

 

 

 

Shadows washed in

 

The Market House

 

 

The second painting shows the famous detached bell-tower which sits alongside Ledbury Parish Church. To the left is the Prince of Wales, surely the best pub in the county with its wide selection of real ales. Also on the left in the foreground is the entrance to the Weavers Gallery where Ledbury Art Society holds its exhibitions. Behind the railings and out of the picture is the Butchers Row Museum housed in a timber frame building that used to stand in a row of buildings in the middle of the High Street. Beyond the pub and not visible here is a magnificent timber framed building, formerly a Grammar School it now house the Heritage Centre.

 

Church Street sketch

 

Darker tones added

 

 

More darks

 

Church Street - the completed demonstration

 

The full article is here

Ledbury Art Society have their annual exhibition in the Weavers Gallery, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 1DW, Monday 19 - Sunday 25 November. They should have at least 70 paintings on display!

 

Canadian forest scene - something different for me!

Canada, 15" x 11"

A painting from a recent one to one workshop I did online.  Something new for me as I don't normally do lakes, fir trees, but this was a nice challenge and I might end up doing more of these when I tire of boats/street scenes - you never know where art takes you in a virtual way.  What attracted me to the source photo was the fact it had a bit of everything - foreground, middle and background interest and lovely stillish reflections in the lake.  I popped in the small boat as an afterthought - I think it needed something out there on the left as a focal point and the floating log almost pointing to it.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms

 

Video #46 - getting some colour into those shadows

My latest video up on my YouTube Channel and this time a revisit to shadows and injecting some colour into them and having a bit of fun.  Hope you like it.

 

Painted as always on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms

 

Latest YouTube Video - Simplifying the scene (Another Venice painting!)

Here's my latest Watercolour Demo up on my YouTube Channel, this time a scene in Venice (yes, another one!) and focusing on tips for simplifying the scene.

 

 

Latest YouTube Video - My 5 tips for loose painting

Here is my latest watercolour tutorial up on my YouTube Channel, this time I share my 5 tips for painting loose - e.g. I stand rather than sit.  Let me know what you think.

 

 

Malmesbury Plein Air #2

Malmesbury, Wiltshire, 11" x 15"

Another plein air from a recent Malmesbury trip with my painting group - the Exiles.  This one  was filmed by Mel - Thanks Mel for being so patient.  It was quickly put up on my YouTube Channel.  I will try and do more outside videos and live if I can, once I can work out the best technology to use and camera angle.  So difficult to decide camera on the left of me (and then not see the palette) or camera on the right of me (and possibly my hand will hide what I am painting)

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms