Watercolour of Yate, 22" x 15" on Saunders Waterford Rough 300gms
A demo painting I did for my local art group. Subject is one of my local pubs, the White Lion Inn. Centre is a pedestrian crossing and behind, the pub car park. The tower of St Marys is in the background and moved slightly for composition purposes. The pub walls being white, were 'dirtied' up a bit with yellow and other colours, only slightly to not make it so white. I think the diagonal shadow across the pub worked quite well.
A recent commission, painting from a photo of Burano near Venice.
So quiet a colourful picture of this pretty location! And the challenge of not too many shadows which I tend to look for.
Watercolour of Burano, 22" x 15" on Saunders Waterford Rough 300gms
So my interpretation of the scene. Not too many details changed.
A wash went over the whole picture starting with the sky of course. Then the different buildings were painted, first the background buildings and then the main avenue. The window surrounds were done with white gouache as a later stage.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 22" x 15".
A Winter scene of the path leading to Brook Street in Chipping Sodbury, with the town Church tower in the background (the tower was moved to a more central position than it really is, to help the composition). There's a row of cottages here who have a nice view over the park to the right. On the path I introduced some lighter areas depicting puddles and an easy way of getting some reflections in. Trees top left were done in a 'random' fashion with a mop brush and fairly thick paint.
Watercolour of Boat for a Commission, 15" x 11".
A boat painted for a commission. Man and dog are creeping into many of my paintings and not sure exactly why - I don't even own a dog. It's nice now and again to paint a subject that somebody else has suggested and not have to rack your brains trying to come up with a suitable idea. Sometimes I spend more time actually trying to think what to paint than actually doing the painting in the first place. Maybe it's a good ratio anyway.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11".
A Winter scene of Brook Street Chipping Sodbury, looking towards the church tower in the distance. The narrow lane here is a popular spot for dog-walkers, so I had to slip in a little dog. Really easy to paint dogs when they're in the distance - it's just a quick splodge of paint. Sword brush was used to paint in fairly random twigs and leaves on the foreground trees.
Landscape Watercolour of the Cotswolds, 15" x 11"
A commission and a typical country lane scene. Winter snow is a great subject for watercolour with it's tonal contrasts and dropping in bits of colour to make the snow a bit more interesting.
This painting is sold.
Landscape Watercolour of Tytherington, 15" x 11".
Lovely little village of Tytherington, South Glos, and a view across to the church and some neighboring cottages from the shade of large tree next to the Swan Pub. Quite a simple composition I suppose with very little painting of architectural detail on the church and simple foreground shadow connected with person walking forwards.
Painted on Saunders Waterford Rough, 140 lbs.
Landscape Watercolour of Staithes, 15" x 11" on Saunders Waterford Rough Paper 140 lbs
This is the quant little footbridge joining the two halves of Staithes Town on the beautiful North Yorkshire coast. I was lucky enough to have pleasant sunshine when I was there last year. The river here is the primary subject for many visiting artists, especially at low tide and featuring the old rowing boats which are almost a trademark of the town.
My 400th post.
Landscape Watercolour of the Algarve, 15" x 11" on Saunders Waterford Rough Paper 140 lbs
The busy marina at Olhao (pronounced "oll Yow") on the Algarve and the pier stretching out to the main ferry point for the islands in the Ria Formosa natural park. Olhao. This is the biggest fishing port on the Algarve, and if you ignore the shabby appearance of the town centre there's a great daily fish market here on the waterfront and loads of restaurants along the Outubro Promenade serving fish and shell fish dishes. I am gradually getting used to the Saunders paper now away from my usual Bockingford and doing wet in wet on Saunders is a hell of a lot easier.
Landscape Watercolour of Cadeques, Spain, 15" x 11" on Bockingford NOT Paper 140 lbs
Cadeques in Costa Brava, Spain, is a pretty village with white washed buildings and a popular place for tourists with it's association with Salvador Dali. In this sketch I tried to capture the sulight on the roof of some large villas across the bay and the glistening sea as it reflects the mid afternoon sun. Definitely best to attempt this sparkling of the water with rough watercolour paper and not NOT as I did!
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