Last nights demo to Ashtead Art Group. Brief was to paint some barges in a river scene. Unfortunately I had no suitable images, so the group, after a vote/poll I set up, decided on this scene from Watermouth Harbour in North Devon. No barges, but some simple boat shapes, low tide and an exercise in values and composition.
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A street scene - Castle Street in Clitheroe and the subject of a full length step by step demo up on my YouTube Channel.
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Latest video and a beach scene at sunset and celebrating the magic of watercolour - colour, light and contrasts:
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Gran Canaria, Spain, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Another beach painting from Gran Canaria - Playa de Las Canteras in Las Palmas. Could be a good subject for 1) Composition 2) Creating mood in the sky 3) Getting light into your watercolour. What do you think?
Next workshop is here.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
#watercolour #StcMill #watercolorpainting
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Trapani, Sicily, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
My demo painting from my recent online workshop. This time a night scene and based on Trapani in Sicily. Techniques covered included:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/november-2020-watercolor
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
#watercolour #StcMill #watercolorpainting
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Lincoln, UK, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A workshop painting from last week. In about an hour or so I painted this scene from Lincoln. A few challenges from the source video - complex windows, shop windows on the buildings on the left. Then the cobbled street - how would you do that in watercolour? And next, the background. There were two towers from the cathedral. I replaced with a simpler single tower and a whole lot less detail.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
#watercolour #StcMill #watercolorpainting
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Some effects that are difficult to achieve with other mediums - the mixing of different thicknesses of paint for the sky, and letting them mix a little at the edges and the glow you could get as in the centre here by leaving the paper unpainted and first laying down clear water around that bright area, or in it, then painting carefully up to the area to get a soft edge.
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Demo painting last night to Newton Watercolor Society in Boston (it was via Zoom of course!).
About 40+ of their members painted along with me over a couple of hours. This is Fivizzano Market Day in mid October. A bit of sun and an exercise in perspective, figure drawing, and simplifying the scene.
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