Continuing with last week’s theme and my enduring enthusiasm for bars, this week’s effort sees me revisit one of my favourite bars in Barcelona, Sol de Nit: We first came across this bar when exploring Barcelona around Easter time in 2017. My affection for this bar is largely based on memories and associations. I remember …
Picking up where I left off last week – here’s the ‘work in progress’ painting that I’d started. The pencil lines of the initial sketch still visible through the first wash. I procrastinated for quite a while before I did anything else with this. This was mainly because I wasn’t sure how best to tackle …
I do like to include figures in my work but, some of my recent efforts that have included figures have also left me feeling a little frustrated. I don’t really want to get into portraiture style likenesses, but I do want to be represent figures that are convincing. I set myself a challenge to try …
A quick post this week but, hopefully, a positive one! After after a few weeks governed by deadlines and things that may be related to my watercolour endeavours but not actually painting, it’s been nice to spend a bit of time painting for painting’s sake! After my exhibition at Danny House I was keen to …
I recently had to get to Brighton train station early in the morning to get a train up to London. Aside from the disruption of an unusually early start to the day, it was great to be in Brighton’s wonderful train station before the morning rush hour started. I arrived in time to get a …
Watercolour painting of Brighton train station before the rush hour Read More »
My main objective, after last week’s watercolour workshop was to work with a greater sense of urgency. This need was highlighted by my second attempt at the workshop painting. I think one of the drawbacks about painting in a studio, or at home, is that time becomes less of an imperative. This means that the …
This is by no means a definitive ‘how to’ and ‘how not to’ paint in watercolour, but it just so happens that I painted these two paintings on consecutive days. Despite there being so little time between the two paintings, they are nevertheless worlds apart. I deliberated long and hard about whether to share the …
One ‘how to watercolour’ – and one ‘how not to watercolour’ Read More »
