Its easy to get carried away with colour – when emerald, amethyst, indigo, scarlet, magenta, cobalt, sunflower yellow lure you in! And then you end up creating either Mud… or a lot of rainbow splashes going everywhere. However much fun this is, in order to achieve a more successful painting you have to force yourself […]
Love this simple way to do palette knife trees in watercolours. Beginners will too! Dampen the paper where the trunk will be, then just glide the knife into the dampness. Change knives to add a different colour into the trunk, let it run a bit and use a finger to smudge and merge the colours […]
Painted in a nature park in St. Ives, New South Wales. Lovely reserve full of birds and trees, delightful. The foliage greens become progressively warmer into the foreground. The edges are also sharper more in focus in the foreground and softer in the background. The tree trunk has a graceful curve- which provides a more […]
The Good News is there’s a lot to be gained by yesterday’s art wreckages. This morning I reviewed my ‘artistic overflow of enthusiasm’ i.e. experiments that look pretty horrible. I came up with a plan and 6 ways these less than ideal images can be of use to me. I’m quite determined to salvage […]
Watercolours are a versatile medium, they don’t have to be wishy washy. They can be bold with bright sunlight dappling the forest or calm, serene. Two of my personal favourite tree paintings These are two of my favourite watercolour tree paintings. Very different from each other one so very tranquil, the other with shadows & […]
Zen of Colour: In the Forest is a creative interpretative watercolour painting that evokes a lovely sense of tranquility. This is primarily due to the simplified palette of mainly, 3 tubes of paint. I’ve used indigo for the deep darks, zoisite a green grey for the back ground, cobalt teal for the […]
Daniel Smith watercolour paints used Serpentine, Amazonite, Hematite, Green Apatite in a peeling, torn bark simile of the forest gum tree bark.
Where does texture and detail belong? When to stop painting!? How to avoid fiddling? It is a matter of simply reminding yourself as you are painting, there are 3 main areas to your composition. Background, Middleground and Foreground. 3 Main Textural Areas: Background, Middleground, Foreground Each of these areas is to be handled […]
top onions by Jenny Hetherington UWA Drawing the Line workshop bottom sandals by Margaret Hand
Loose bold free impressionistic watercolour mountains and hills! Bold bright cobalt sky emphasizes the top of the hill providing a sense of heat, summer and sun to the landscape. Mountain in Blue is an inspired mix of cerulean blue, prussian blue with a bit of umber; then allowing some of the paint to drip down […]