- Abraham-Hicks
A daily practice of sketching and painting gives you a chance to exercise the big three P's - practice, practice, practice!

"Trees - Flow-ers of Energy - Coffee on Bockingford 300gsm
Some more painting with coffee, this is totally exciting! The back-ground was stained with tea first (black and very strong!) you can see it peeping through in the three corners) continuing with coffee when the tea was totally dry. Unlike the coffee, the tea is staining, so doesn't lift easily and takes over-painting and layering like a dream.
This was done exclusively with no sketching beforehand - I just followed the flow of the colours and, trees, being one of my favourite subjects, always seem to appear before my eyes! I also added a bit of Cadmium Red for interest and some Intense Green for a couple of leaves. The dark parts are where the coffee dried to a rich, glossy sheen on the original, but doesn't show up on the scan.
Done on a thick Bockingford 300gsm watercolour paper - 12" x 8"