Tag: watercolours
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Rescuing sheep
I rescued some sheep! Well, not literally… just this picture, which I’d had a bit of a watercolour disaster with. But using the technique of overlaying pastels that we learned at Windermere Art Society the other week, I managed to resuscitate it! Does anyone else have interesting ways of rescuing art when it goes horribly…
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Experimenting with pastels
Last week’s session at Windermere Art Society was absolutely fascinating – a workshop on layering pastels over watercolour. We each took along a watercolour painting we weren’t overly happy with, and lovely local artist Shahida Dolan showed us how to add texture, depth and definition by layering soft pastels straight on top of the watercolour.…
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And the colour version…!
I tried using watercolours on the farm buildings sketch I posted the other day. I really wanted to highlight the vivid pink of the hydrangeas on the wall – it’s not there yet but I can always fiddle with it some more once it’s fully dry…
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Nervous of watercolours…
I was too nervous to just plunge in and try watercolours on my latest pen and ink drawing. So, wimp that I am, I scanned it, printed it out on ordinary computer paper, and used the watercolours on that. And… I’m surprised… in a good way, because it’s come out looking much better than I…
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Trying pen and wash
For our last session of Windermere Art Society for the season, there was a fantastic demo and workshop on the techniques of drawing in waterproof ink and then highlighting with watercolour. I enjoyed the session so much I completely lost track of time – in fact the picture was still wet when I came to…
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A snowy scene
There was another fun and informative session on watercolours at Windermere Art Society last night. This one focussed on using a limited palette, blending and semi-abstract techniques to make quick paintings of snow. I’m quite proud of the one I did, especially the barbed wire fence. 😁 (I also used a rigger brush for the…
