Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

Royal Oak, Chipping Sodbury

Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11" on Saunders Waterford Rough 300gms.

The Royal Oak Inn (a local pub I visit a few times), a 17th century coaching house on Broad Street, Chipping Sodbury.  I suppose what breaks up the monotony of a load of horizontal lines are some jagged edges of the roof tops and their shadows, and the replication of peaks and troughs of the tops of the parked cars, then their shadows coming out into the road.  The angle of the sun now is about the only time the town is paint-able.

 

Puerto del Carmen Old Town, 6

Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11".

A turn in the road, in Puerto del Carmen.  A stormy sky, but bright sunlight here casting sahadows across the road.  Sky was wetted first, leaving out bit here and there to help with the definition of sharper clouds.  Then a darker was was dropped in for the clouds proper (maybe ultramarine blue and burnt umber and a little yellow ochre). Cerulean blue was then dropped in for the sky, merging with the clouds.

 

Tetbury Market House

Landscape Watercolour of Tetbury, 22" x 15".

The old Tetbury Market House (grade I listed building), an ochre coloured building resting on stout pillars and topped by a lovely bell tower in the centre of Tetbury.  Markets have been run from Tetbury Market House for more than 350 years now and you regularly see outdoor traders on the ground floor selling all sorts of goods.   This was a Winter scene so dullish sky and long shadows, plus people with heavy coats.

 

Market Day Chipping Sodbury

Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11".

Market day in the 'market town' of Chipping Sodbury.  The main stalls are just down on the left (I'll do them in another sketch).  My tip for making old buildings look older, have a dip in the roof top and have a few minor jagged edges so it's not too perfect.  The building in the middle is the local butchers - great home-made faggots & sausages.  Sky was done in 3 steps - 1st wet nearly the whole area, 2nd drop in the random dark clouds and third a bit of cerulean blue for patches of sky.

 

 

Puerto del Carmen Port, 4

Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11".

The wide harbour wall protecting the port/marina at Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote.  It seems like most of the vehicles on the island are white and that makes for easier painting.  I've merged the cars into their shadows and the harbour wall to make a more coherent composition.  The far headland had a few splats of paint above to give the hint of some palm  trees.

 

Perranporth, Cornwall 2

Landscape Watercolour of Peranporth, 15" x 11".

The centre of Perranporth, a popular resort on the Cornish coast.  The pub in the centre of the picture I think was flooded in the recent December storms and high tides, being very low and flat here.  My painting was based on a photo taken by me last summer though, with the Ice cream parlours on the left and a bit of bright sunshine.

 

Silver Street Tetbury

Landscape Watercolour of Tetbury, 15" x 11".

Silver Street Tetbury, looking into the autumn sun and a row of large residential houses in the background.  The tree was painted leaving some little bits of paper round the outside, to give a bit more of an impression of the strong light.  Painting against the light makes it a lot easier to connect different objects thrown into shade - the bases of houses, car windscreens, shadows underneath cars, people nearby and so on.

 

Chipping Sodbury High Street 6

Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 22" x 15".

A view looking down Chipping Sodbury High Street towards the hills at the southern tip of the cotswolds.  The washes of the hills and buildings were given a bit of a hazy feel with a bit of scrubbing out while still damp.  Mr Delivery person was put in as an afterthought after I'd put in the white van.  Painting a row of cars sideways on is a bit difficult I think (that's the way they park each side of the wide street), so I've simplified it a bit.

 

Chipping Sodbury High Street 5

Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11".

Higher up the High Street in Chipping Sodbury and a scene of mainly private houses.  Steps in this painting - 1) Sky, painting around roof tops and chimneys.  2) A main wash over the buildings and road, painting around the highlights on the cars.  3)  Darken up the roof tops a bit more with a warm colour.  4)  Second wash over the road coming darker in the foreground.  5)  Windows, painted in loosely.  6)  Car details and their shadows, then figures.

 

Back of Jollys Department Store, Bath

Landscape Watercolour of Bath, 15" x 11".

The rear of Jollys Department Store form Queens Square in Bath.  The trees in Queen Square are casting shadows over the light honey coloured buildings of Bath in this well-known square.  Tricky bit in this painting was the timing of the dappled shadows on the buildings and road.  The base wash was whetted and then allowed to go damp, then in with a darker pigment of the shadows, so a sort of wet in wet.