Tag: watercolour
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Art anniversary
It’s two years, almost to the day, since I first discovered I was good at art. I’d joined Windermere Art Society a few weeks previously, and stabbed about with a pencil in attempts to draw still life. And then they had a workshop on single colour watercolours, and something clicked. This was the result, and…
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Experimenting…
A friend bought me a set of watercolour pencils for my birthday, so of course I had to sit straight down and mess about with them! I wanted to see what the colours looked like, but I also experimented with the way I used the pencils. The weird blob of colours (on the left) was…
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Herdies say “hey”
Or should that be “hay”? Anyway, here’s the watercolour version of my hungry sheep! I may still add some detail to the foreground but it’s very much a pen-and-wash so I don’t want to go in too heavy with the paint. What do you think?
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Spot the sheep!!
Spot the sheep!! This is a slightly crap photo of my latest pen-and-ink-and-watercolour, because the paper buckled and created an odd corrugated effect. It’s of a scene in Coppermines Valley, Coniston that I photographed in dramatic conditions earlier this year. I used blue pastel paper because I happened to have a small piece left over…
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Decisions, decisions…
This is a new pen and ink sketch of the launches on Derwentwater, moored up at the Keswick jetties. I planned on doing a pen and watercolour wash type thing for this but am now wavering because a. I can’t decide whether to opt for naturalistic colours or something a bit more abstract and b.…
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Found it!
This is a tiny watercolour of some fields, which I painted many years ago and then thought I’d lost. I finally unearthed it in a cardboard box of old pictures and frames that was under the bed in the spare bedroom, and have dug it out to re-frame and put back on my wall. I…
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Practising watercolour flowers
I saw a new technique for painting flowers (and leaves) in watercolour on Instagram recently and thought I’d give it a go. Some came out better than others, but I had a LOT of fun trying! I can’t wait to try it on other subjects…
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Rocky!
There was a workshop on painting rocks in watercolour at last night’s Windermere Art Society meeting – very useful for Lake District landscapes!! This is my first attempt…
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Watching you…
My first sale! This little watercolour painting of a human eye sold at a recent charity art auction in aid of the Kirkby Lonsdale fire recovery fund. The quaint old market town of Kirkby Lonsdale in south-east Cumbria was devastated by fire in December 2024. One person died, and over 80 businesses and homes were…
