Bergerac, France, 15" x 11"
Just an ordinary country lane with a bit of negative painting - painting around objects to keep their lighter value - as in the tree trunks on the right and the round road sign. However when it comes to highlights on figures, sometimes you've just got to reach for a little white gouache. As you can see, I don't mind cauliflowers in watercolour. I sometimes encourage them and they really work I think in foliage.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Dordogne, France, 15" x 11"
Another painting based on a dashcam image of mine. Do you have a dashcam? Many people use them now and it's surprising how many images you may have lurking on your device which might make decent subjects for a painting. So here's mine, a quiet country road in SW France, could be anywhere. But a play on light and shade and an accidental figure coming towards us.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Watercolour 15" x 11"
Another rural scene leading on from my last posting. I am trying to perfect the look of tall pine trees. They seem to loose their lower branches, save for a few stubs, and then gain more of a lollipop look about them. Here the forest is mixed in with some deciduous species and the foreground is winter grass. Good to do a bit of scraping to get the grassy look, which I don't normally do.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press Paper, 300 gms.
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Here are the two demos I did last year to Exmouth Art Group as a one day workshop. So what I normally do on the workshops is that we do things in stages - first I do the outline sketch, then the attendees do their sketch, then I do the first wash, then they do their wash...and so on....
Each painting here is 22" x 15"
A rural lane and an exercise in simplifying the scene and composition
Newquay harbour and an exercise in painting boats and simple reflections
All painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms paper
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Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Bristol Savages sketch night and the topic for the evening was "the joys of the open road". So we have 2 hours to produce a painting and no access to any reference material (e.g. do a google search on your mobile!!). Always a challenge and always enjoyable. Most of the artists came up with a similar theme - a windy country road, a vista and some figures...
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Bristol Savages Wednesday night sketch night and the topic from the Chairman was "Nothing new under the Sun". So we then have 2 hours to come up with a painting without recourse to reference material. I took a typical French countryside view - a chateau, a few pencil-thin Italian Cypress Trees and some deep shadows across the scene.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Here is my latest demo video. This time a rural scene and making some small adjustments to the composition. I'm back with my full palette on this one!
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Here's my latest video up on my YouTube Channel, and this one is featuring painting animals (well some goats wandering around the famous Avebury Stones) in a rural landscape..
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Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Bristol Savages, Wednesday night sketch and the topic for the evening - "a good prospect". So I interpreted this as a god view, here over rolling hills and maybe a location like the UK, Ireland or perhaps France. There were two main stages to doing the painting. First step was the initial wash, very weak at first and the stronger greens at the foreground. Then, almost a second wash starting from the top, defining the far trees, hedgerows, shadows and painting around the houses. Smoke was added as a last stage with mainly white paint with a hint of cobalt blue.
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Dordogne, France, 15" x 11".
A 'typical' Dordogne country road - undulating hills and round bales of straw waiting to be collected off the fields. With so much green in the picture, I had to introduce different tones of green by altering the amount of water I added or changing the ratio of blue to yellow. I rarely use any green now in my palette and just add ultramarine blue to cadmium yellow, but any yellow or blue will do.
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