Week 36-40 of my Watercolour Course
Fall is in full swing. Pumpkins, Halloween and falling leaves.
Barry Coombs demonstration page. Barry is my teacher.
Week 36, Little Tin Buckets
We continue building on the relation of front to back and depth. This week there is lots of colour. Bright warm colours come forward, dim cool colours recede.
These small buckets are not all round and are tricky to draw convincingly. Barry has set them up deliberately so there is lots of space between them. No elegant groupings.
Not a particularly pretty painting, sorry to say. It does show depth though.
Week 37, Oil Lanterns
We had oil lanterns to practice on this week. We are still working to show depth and differentiate the different planes. A great subject to work with. Lots of fun to draw. At first I got carried away and put too many lanterns in my picture to finish properly. Eventually I put a green wash over the back lantern.
Week 38, Citrus Fruit
We're back to citrus fruit. It's interesting how one of my first painting of citrus fruit compare. Some improvement.
Week 39, Cabbage and Tomatoes
Beautiful crinkly savoy cabbage and vine tomatoes. The challenge for me is to make the cabbage look leafy and crinkly.
I think I overworked the tomatoes, will I ever learn! I like the cabbage though.
Week 40, More Pots
We're back with these wonderful oddly shaped pots. We've painted them before if you want to see them Here is a link.
This week I'm trying to do a softer version with more gradual colours. I'm moderately successful.
This is the last class of the session. I'm registering for 10 more classes in the new year, see you soon
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I keep going but it's not easy. I enjoy it though. Because I've allowed myself not to be perfect and I have the freedom of making mistakes this is really fun
Nice paper, this time hot press and much smoother.
Fall 2013 Watercolour course continues.
Watercolour is difficult I think. Sometimes I like what I did other times I feel they are dismally poor. Maybe that's what being a student means.
At this point I have 36 lessons under my brush, in just over a year. I'm happy with the progress I have made and I don't think I could have done much better, unless I had spent the summer painting instead of sailing. Let's get our priorities straight!
I would like to learn landscape painting too. Barry has a summer session but I like to sail in the summer and the thought of taking a whole week out is too much to consider. Maybe next year. I have also taken a lot of good photos this summer and many could be used as a subject. Opinions are mixed as to the merits of painting from photos, but I'm not a purist.