20 June 2018
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After I’d posted yesterday’s 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 painting, I realised that the third of the three scenes was mislabelled – it wasn’t a true “split complementary” palette as it included the yellow (directly opposite violet on the colour wheel) as well as … Continue reading
19 June 2018
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Today’s 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 entry was an exercise in colour. I started with yellow and did a monochrome version of the still life. Next, I added the colours on either side in the colour wheel by mixing in blue and red to … Continue reading
18 June 2018
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Since I am doing the 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge, I’ve done a painting of the photo I took of the back garden: I’ve swatched the colours used at the bottom. They were essentially from my cheap Royal and Langnickel tubes although there … Continue reading
17 June 2018
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I have a new fan brush so, after a long drive back home today, I decided to play around that for today’s 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge: Nothing profound but you can’t hope to use a tool well until you have first simply … Continue reading
16 June 2018
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Today’s watercolour painting: I was in a hurry so decided to knock up a quick self portrait using a limited palette – ultramarine and burnt sienna, mixed to a neutral for the main painting but dropped in directly to wet … Continue reading
15 June 2018
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Or, more accurately, I do like to imagine I’m beside the seaside. I’m not at the coast today but I followed a painting exercise to create this imagined scene. It could be seen as a multimedia work – the card … Continue reading
15 June 2018
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Here is the picture I couldn’t upload yesterday (as expected, it was a temporary, self-resolving glitch):
14 June 2018
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I’m still doing my daily paintings but I’m having a problem logging onto Flickr at the moment – possibly more of a problem with OpenDNS rather than Flickr itself. However, I’ve got other things to do that troubleshoot it, particularly … Continue reading
13 June 2018
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Today’s watercolour is another piece done en plein air (that is, sitting outside and painting the scene in front of me) and given that I still don’t find this an easy exercise, I think I’m as pleased with this as … Continue reading
12 June 2018
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Recently I’ve been drinking a different kind of homebrew – beet kvass: The method is simple – peel and chop three beetroot into medium chunks then cover with salted water (about 10g salt to 1000g water) and leave sealed for … Continue reading