This is a demo painting from today’s class, using quinacridone gold and Paynes grey (W&N) and Burnt Sienna (Maimeri) with a weak glaze of cyan (Maimeri) over the sky when the paint was dry. A bit of ink work with a palette knife and rigger brush on the dried...
Today I enjoyed abstracting the landscape…… tidal impressions. Using watercolour and a limited palette for each work I used rough papers to suggest various textures such as reflected light in water, fluid passages and sand. These are two of the...
Another commission…. Goat Island, watercolour. This does not need to be done until Christmas but I have been out a couple of times to take resource pictures and the rocks and water inspire me so much I have already done three. No wonder my paintings...
Some of my earliest drawings and paintings are of birds. It is a subject to which I often return both with painting and drawing and with photography. This, pied oyster catcher, is my most recent bird painting. My reference was a photo I took at the end of 2011 while...
Continuing with my enjoyment of painting birds in watercolour, my latest two are a plover and egrets which inhabit the local estuaries and coastal river areas. The plover painting is overall more realistic although the background is not true to the original image....
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