11 June 2018
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The painting isn’t part of my book review but I needed to get both done. For the 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge, I worked up a small painting of the Rabbi, using one of the photos from the cover of the book as … Continue reading
10 June 2018
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Today’s 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 painting shows the organ pipes and a pair of drum kits in the music area at St Clement’s: It’s okay and, for a large (A3) watercolour painting done without any underdrawing, I’m moderately pleased with the result. However, … Continue reading
9 June 2018
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For today’s painting, I took a trip to RSPB Otmoor. I’m pleased with the result but note that it depend a lot on my initial experimentation with colours: I started with trying to match the grey of the sky I … Continue reading
8 June 2018
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If I cheated a bit yesterday by reusing the same painting in its fully dry state, I’ve made up for it today by trying two side-by-side approaches to the same subject. It is a flower of Nigella damascena (Love in … Continue reading
7 June 2018
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I admit it. Today’s painting is just yesterday’s with all the water fully evaporated: However, given how essential the interaction of water and pigment is to the art of watercolour, I think it has been a valuable experiment and worth … Continue reading
6 June 2018
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Today’s watercolour experiment: I used an oversized brush and some wells of paint that needed using up on my palette. Critical about understanding this photo of the painting is that it is still wet – not just damp but with … Continue reading
5 June 2018
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I decided to get today’s #30x30DirectWatercolour2018 out of the way before work. I haven’t made use of my little mannequin for a while so I set him on the windowsill and set to with some of the colours that had … Continue reading
4 June 2018
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For today’s #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 piece, I decided to focus on the colours I didn’t quite manage on Saturday’s painting. Using the same Sennelier colours, I can definitely get the bluer greens of the original source image. Also (not tested here), I … Continue reading
3 June 2018
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Rather than sketching in the service at St Clement’s this morning, I got my small watercolour kit out to create my third painting for the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge: The main colour was yellow ochre, toned down with a bit of orange … Continue reading
2 June 2018
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Today’s main activity was a trip to IKEA in Reading, the first time I’ve been to this site. I ended up not getting the shelving system I’d been eying up or most of the other things that caught my eye … Continue reading