W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm
A colourful front door on a smallholding not far from where I live.
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Shhh… germination in progress. Can you hear the swish of the brush, dipping, dipping into water, gathering colour from the palette? That's the process of planting flowers in my watercolour garden. *•.¸ðŸŒ¿¸.•*
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Playing with a candle
A couple of years ago I decided to try out a new technique (probably not new to many of you!) - I used a candle to draw some random lines on watercolour paper, gave the whole sheet a soft wash of ochre, which made the tree trunks stand out and from there I could complete the scenery, darkening the main trunks, adding more trees in the back-ground and then doing a fore-ground. Since then I often use this method and it's amazing what results one can achieve.
Below is another painting I did using the same technique using the waxed areas as highlites.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
If you are lucky enough...
… to be at the beach…
then you are lucky enough.
W&N watercolour in Moleskine 200gsm sketchbook
This is the walk-way down to the beach in Chaka’s Rock, Ballito, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
What better way of whiling away winter hours than dreaming of being at the beach?
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Saturday, June 14, 2014
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