...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 12 minutesIt’s been a few months since I started off on the journey of beginning to make my own watercolours and I thought it was time of a bit of a review of where things are up to, as I have learned quite a lot and …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile working on some of my recent watercolours I was trimming my paper to the longer format, and ended up with quite a few offcuts. I hate waste, so I thought what can I do with these…. Practice some more miniature landscapes, that’s what! Working …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSlightly inspired by cooking and Skies this week. We made duck, and my partner didn’t get hers as all the children decided to have it, then didn’t eat it. I ordered Barnsley Chops in the Beck and Call, which were far rarer than asked for. …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile on our first (hopefully of many) walks of the year I took a photo, as I have before, of the pine trees on Parkside Road. I’m always fascinated by these trees and (I am not sure if this is cut to avoid the road) …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the watercolour country lane tutorials I completed the other day I was inspired by the colours to work from some picture I took in Shipley Glen some years ago. I also wanted to play with the square format some more. Often the challenge in …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeek 5 of my One Colour a Day project. I have been ill half the week and managing not much more than the odd bit of Train Simulator, and so for no real reason other than that these are some train inspired colours. The final …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve talked a little previously on the subject of sketching and experimenting. There’s a lot of different thought’s and practice on using sketchbooks, some artists meticulously plan their images, with sketches, tonal sketches, draft versions and so on. Others feel that doing test versions removes …
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo after the first tests with purchased pigments, I have gone up a level and foraged a few of my own and had a go an processing these as inspired by Found and Ground. Ultimately what you are doing here is getting the raw material …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeek Three of my One Colour a Day. Including “Back to Work Day”, Minecraft, eating more crap (and some healthy smoothies), and characterised overal by a run of producing my own watercolours…
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve been thinking about making watercolours for a few months now. I am not sure why I make things difficult for myself at times, as this is plainly not the easiest way to acquire paints. I think some of this was stumbling across the interesting …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere is my second week of One Colour a Day. As before I will not explain much, other than it has been the “Twixtmas Week” when you don’t know what day it is, new year hits, and then (though I was blessed to have a …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn my general obsessive search for the weird and wonderful in the world of colour and insatiable thirst for knowledge on a subject I have of course read up about many of the weird and wonderful materials that have been used to provide pigments, gemstones …