Weekly sketch night with my art society, the 'Bristol Savages', and the topic for the night was "life after lockdown. So we have normally 2 hours to produce a painting based on that topic without the use of any reference material (so no cheating looking up on the web). Owning to the current social distancing restrictions, this of course was a virtual meeting.
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Bath, UK, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A recent demo, well last year, to the Bristol Art Group in a workshop format. So I did the demo in stages like my online workshops making it easy to follow my step by step approach. The subject here was the Theatre Royal in Bath and a bit of Contra Jour
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Albufeira, Portugal, painting, 15" x 11"
Probably keeping to my formula of bands of light and dark down a painting made fairly easy here in this scene from Albufeira, a tourist resort in Southern Portugal. Then I use objects to join up the bands - for example the figure under the shade of the tree and some posts on the left to connect with the middle ground and so on.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Malaga, Spain, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
As I have mentioned in a few postings before, I normally avoid lighting/sun coming from behind me. It makes for tricky shadows for figures and sometimes it's difficult to get a range of values. But here I think the dark area on the left, the angle of the roof replicated with the angle of the shadow on the street helped.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Ronda, Spain, 15" x 11"
From Plaza Espana in Ronda, looking over toward the other side of town over the El Tajo Gorge. Another painting I videoed but no commentary added as yet. So I may post one day. I think this one works with all the connection of the two foreground figures to the middle ground and the background, plus some loose watercolor techniques.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Livorno, Italy, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
The Piazza Garibaldi (I think I have painted many Garibaldi named streets and squares) in Livorno, and I love painting these scenes where we have a dark foreground and a light background. For me, it creates a nice atmosphere of you are in a cool place and you are looking towards light and warmth.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Ronda. Spain, 15" x 11"
A walk down a side street in Ronda, Spain. Connections are an important thing in watercolour. I think it works well when you have connected shapes by the same tonal value - so here the smaller figure with the shadows from the buildings. Also part of the figures right-hand side has the same value as the street. So not much painting is done to create the figure, but what's left gives the impression of a person there.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Bath, UK, 15" x 11"
A view down St John's Place in Bath. Lovely buildings I think in the Georgian Style, and quite a challenge to get the stonework the correct colour. It's a busy area, being near to the Theatre Royal, so needs a few people wandering about.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms paper.
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Bath, UK, 15" x 11"
A view up/down Grand Parade in Bath, from Pulteney Bridge (the Bridge is to the left of this scene). Most of the time, a busy street corner with mainly visitors to the city, so I had to put quite a few in. With a group of figures, I try to treat them as one shape - so draw the tops of heads and shoulders first, then the shape of multiple bodies and sizes intermingled.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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It's coming! The Annual Exhibition at the Bristol Savages. Loads of paintings from local artists around my local city of Bristol and who are members of the art group. The exhibition is on 26th April to 11th May, and entry is free. The exhibition is at the Red Lodge, Park Row, Bristol, BS1 5LJ and entry is free.
So my entry number eight is a view of a shady cafe in the city of Cagliari.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms paper.
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