Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

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.

 

Pulling ashore - Porlock Weir

Porlock Weir, UK, 22" x 15"

This was a demo painting and I laid down some extra washes on this one - more than I normally do, especially in the bottom right to try and create the form of a rocky slope.  I decided to introduce a figure on the right with some movement.  I am not sure what the figure is pulling, but it certainly isn't the big boat.  Not too many colours were used.  Mainly cobalt blue and burnt sienna were the primary two.

Painted on Saunders Waterford Paper, 300 gms, NOT surface.

 

Demo painting - Maine fishing harbour

Maine, USA, 15" x 11"

A demo workshop painting based on a reference photo of a fishing harbour in Maine.  I thought the scene made for a good composition - a left and right frame with the buildings, not too symmetrical, a row of boats leading the eye up the scene into the background.  The buildings on the left had some dry brush strokes applied and different hues to give it an aged look.  Also the lobster pots in the foreground had to be simplified so as not to draw too much attention.

 

One day Watercolour Workshop with Tim Wilmot 20th January 2018 Bristol UK

I'm running a one day watercolour workshop at my base near Bristol next year on Saturday January 20th 2018.  It's a full day being run more as a paint along with me.  We'll be doing one painting in the morning together and one in the afternoon.  Probably one landscape and one harbour or seascape scene.  The class size will be small - 6 to 8 attendees max.  Price is £100 GBP which includes refreshments through the day and lunch.  To enquire further, please email me.

No materials (other than water!) will be provided, so please bring along your own stuff.

 

St Johns Gate Bath

Bath, UK, 22" x 15"

A bigger size painting for a scene I have done before, but just introduce different figures.  The scene is a good one to choose for watercolour because of the different tonal values through the composition - the light coming across the foreground and some darks with the centre figure and larger figure right.  Not many cars in this area and they would detract from what is mainly a pedestrian area.

 

A quiet backstreet in St Foy la Grande, France

St Foy La Grande, France, 15" x 11".

My fascination with rows of parked cars continues.  One of the backstreets near where the popular Saturday market happens in the South West town of St Foy la Grande.  Maybe the cars belong to shoppers - don't know.  Painted with my 3-colour palette of selected Sennelier paints.

Painted on Saunders Waterford paper, NOT surface and 300 gms weight.

 

Avoncliff Plein Air - Under the viaduct

Avoncliff, near Bath, 15" x 11".

My last plein air at Avoncliff.  Well it was windy on the last one, even windier under the bridge.  Not only did my lightweight easel fly away, but my palette ended up in the mud.  I must find a way of tethering the thing down or adding some ballast for stability.  Anyway, quickly done in about half an hour before I had to pack up and leave.  Also done with my 3-colour palette (plus mud).

Painted on Saunders Waterford, NOT, 300 gms.

 

Looking down Calle Amaniel Madrid

Madrid, Spain, 15" x 11"

Rows of parked cars feature a lot in my paintings and here's 2 or 3.  A view looking down Calle Amaniel in central Madrid.  Both cars and buildings are simplified here - made easier when it's contre jour.  Not sure if there was a pedestrian crossing in the foreground, but I think it needed something in that area to lead the eye round to the right down another side street.

 

Wrapped up boats - low tide at Porlock Weir

Porlock Weir, England, 15" x 11".

An exercise in simplification.  The distant boats of which there were many, are simplified here - less in number and just thinking about their basic hull shapes and lines and masts.  Painting done with my 3-colour palette, so I decided to make the harbour floor a cool colour to be compatible with the blue tarps covering the boats.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, 300 gms, NOT.

 

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.