Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

Corner Cafes, Vilamoura Marina

Vilamoura, Portugal, Watercolour, 15" x 11"

A sharp right-angle corner in the marina and a few canopies over cafes and restaurants along the waters edge.   I thought it made an interesting pattern looking across the tops of the parasols.  Palm trees simply painted with a small round brush and some dry brush marks, flicked to emulate palm fronds.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

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Fishing Boats return, Quartiera, Portugal

Quartiera, Portugal, Watercolour, 15" x 11"

Fishing boats returning to port.  A little bit of a made up scene and some imagination on the right hand side with all of the moored up fishing boats.  Went with a bit of a dramatic sky with a sort of zig-zag use of a large mop brush rather than a tidy graded wash.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

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Sunny approach to old town Albufeira

Albufeira, Portugal, Watercolour, 15" x 11"

A walk down the hill into Albufeira and the Old Town.  A bit of a strong contra jour this one.  Always a key thing in watercolour to get those contrasting values and silhouettes.  This was a bot of a wet in wet with the initial wash and the sky coming down over the buildings.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

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Shady Tree Albufeira old town

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

Quarteira, Portugal, 15" x 11".

A working port near the coastal town of Quarteira on the Algarve, Portugal.  A large red boat being serviced (if that's the right word) caught my eye in this one.  Quite a challenge with this scene with lots of details in the foreground to be simplified, and then the complex skyline in the background.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press Paper, 300 gms.

 

Rua Brigadeiro Oudinot Funchal 2

Funchal, Madiera, 15" x 11"

One of the main, wide streets leading down to the sea.  A bit of a contra jour, painting into the light.  I like to rough up pedestrian crossings - they wouldn't look right being too perfect with nice edges and clean white stripes.  So I deliberately paint them in quite quickly - of course following the lines of my initial pencil drawing.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

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Zona Velha, Madeira

Funchal, Madeira, 15" x 11"

A bustling area featuring historic homes, some with painted doors, plus lots of restaurants & bars where you can sit outside and do people watching or painting of course.  Here I have gone fro strong sunlight and lots of angular shadows - almost quite abstract for me.  Had to include a couple of figures for scale, emerging from the foreground, and added the one way sign helping with the composition pointing into the middle.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, cold press paper, 300 gms.

Taxi rank, Funchal, Madeira

Funchal, Madeira, 15" x 11".

A Taxi rank in the city of Funchal, Madeira.  Cars can be a bit tricky when they're in the shade.  The two methods I adopt are 1) with the first wash, paint them in with the colour they are going to be, and let it bleed into the surroundings, or 2), paint around them in the first wash and then as a later stage, paint them in, lighter or darker than the shade around them and add in some darker shadows below them.  Windscreens generally I keep them dark as above or light - catching the sunlight.

 

Latest Watercolour Demo Video - Can a Car Park make for an interesting painting??

Here's my latest watercolour video, up on my YouTube Channel and a choosing a very ordinary subject, in this case a car park, to see if it can made into an interesting painting....

 

 

Scraggy Pine tree, Praca Dr Antonio Padinha, Tavira, Portugal

Tavira, Portugal, 15" x 11"

A pine tree amongst some palms in this pretty little square in Tavira, Portugal.  There's a lovely sweeping curve of the buildings on the left, up to the chapel/church at the end of the square.  Very loose treatment (sorry) to the souvenir shop on the left - all their products on stands outside were just greatly simplified (I can't paint every postcard).  Two figures, centre, almost blend into their background, helped by the limited palette in this one.