Landscape Watercolour of Limassol, 15" x 11".
A mixture of different architecture in downtown Limassol, and new offices blocks rubbing shoulders with the old town. With the figures, I am trying to make them merge into their background a bit so they're not standing alone or being too isolated, and some dry brush strokes leading the eyes hopefully into the picture.
Landscape Watercolour of Gran Canaria, 15" x 11"
Calle Doreste in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a popular resort in SW Gran Canaria, and my subject was this curved arcade of tourist shops just on the side of the harbour there. It was a good practice of negative painting round the roof tops of the vehicles and the figures. Sometimes within these white spaces left behind, I later rub out any offending pencil marks, but I think I forgot this one.
Landscape Watercolour of Yate, 15" x 11"
Hollisters is a small DIY shop in my home town. Small, but they stock everything, and long before the big supermarkets and chains moved into town, it was and still is a great place to get good advice. Locals will know there's no pedestrian crossing here, but I thought it aided the composition. To the left of the shop there's a quaint row of cottages set back from the street.
Landscape Watercolour of Tuscany, 15" x 11"
My entry for this summer's Steve Hall Watercolour Competition. It's a Tuscan scene but not sure where exactly. Anyway I would encourage any UK watercolour artists to have a go at his competition and his web site. Steve Hall paints in the loose Wesson style and he runs very popular watercolour courses also. See more about all this by going to his web site and click on Newsletter.
This was the photo for the challenge...
Landscape Watercolour of Mykonos, 15" x 11".
Fabrica Square in Mykonos, a quiet square in Mykonos Town frequented more by locals than tourists. I've tried to hint at the fruit & veg store on the right, with just an indication of produce there and a trolley catching the sunlight. Behind the couple in the centre of the square is the bus shelter and bus stop.
Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11"
Tias is a small town in central Lanzarote, a bit off the tourist areas and a popular residency for local and ex pats. I don't know the name of this street corner, but I took the liberty of changing a few minor architectural details and put in the two people and the car to balance the composition. Pedestrian crossing went in first with a dry wash of light blue pigment just to dirty it up a bit before the cerulean blue sky and ultra marine/alizarin crimson was on the lower half (with a bit of yellow ochre on the lighter right hand side of the central building.
Landscape Watercolour of Jerusalem, 15" x 11"
A busy street corner in the old part of Jerusalem, just opposite the Damascus Gate. There was a varied mixture of shops here, street vendors and even a Hotel in the middle. What attracted me was the challenge of simplifying the scene (extracting many people and a few cars whizzing around the junction here), and I think the blinds with their stripes added a bit of interest.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11"
A traditional fruit and veg shop on Chipping Sodbury High Street. A few washes went into the background buildings and a good bit of yellow ochre for the shop in the middle. I deliberately made the roof lines sag in the middle to hopefully emphasize the age of the structures.
Painted on Saunders Waterford Rough Paper 140 lbs.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11" on Saunders Waterford Rough Paper 140 lbs
A painting completed in my local Art Society evening and a scene local to me. Sharing the picture with my fellow artists and locals, they would quickly point out what the buildings in the scene were thirty, forty years ago. Sadly yesterday's high street of local shops, butchers etc. are now replaced by charity shops and coffee houses.
Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11" on Saunders Waterford Rough Paper 140 lbs
A slight change on this one as regards the direction of the light - the scene of some tourist shops in the Old Town part of Puerto del Carmen with the light behind me rather than coming towards me. So it's a bit more difficult to get areas of contrast unless you introduce a bit of dark shadow and in my case some brightly coloured swimming rings outside the shop.
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