It was back to work yesterday, but I still have a few moments to share from Sunday’s workshop… we started the day with an impromptu watercolour Jacaranda challenge to see who… Read More »Workshop 2nd Day – Watercolour Jacaranda Challenge
I was extremely pleased with how my painting of Rhona at the wedding turned out, but still aware that I would love to paint more freely and loosely I spent… Read More »Sheep Shape…
You can probably tell I’ve been dipping into my new book again by Jean Haines today, with this exercise on painting positive and negative shapes – something I need lots… Read More »Day 245: Exercising Looseness
I’ve been following some watercolour exercises today, experiments designed to practice the way I hold my brush to create different strokes and textures. The exercises are courtesy of Jean Haines’ latest… Read More »Day 240: Brush Handling Exercises
Does anyone have any enlightening and wise advice on painting backgrounds? I spent an hour or so this afternoon trying to make the one here work and I’m less than… Read More »Day 47: Rainbow Lorikeet, part 2
I had an exciting surprise this morning – a friend called to say she was disposing of a drafting board with parallel motion and would I like it – oh,… Read More »Day 28: Practice washes