St Emilion, France, 15" x 11"
A simple composition of one of the roads leading into the small town of St Emilion in SW France. And two ways of painting trees in watercolour: A small fully loaded brush and some dry brush strokes.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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St Emilion, France, 15" x 11"
A simple composition of one of the roads leading into the small town of St Emilion in SW France. And two ways of painting trees in watercolour: A small fully loaded brush and some dry brush strokes.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Demo #1
Demo 2
A recent visit back to Compton Dando Art Society and two local scenes to them. It was a two-hour session, so I did one before the coffee break and one after. I took it as a demo of course of watercolour, but also values.
Both painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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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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