Watercolor paintings, tutorials, and videos
I had never noticed how sculptural hares were until today. This hare watercolor painting was a joy to paint and came out with bags of personality.
I even did a prepatory sketch for once!
Edit: And I won 3rd place in the Daily Paintworks challenge! Very chuffed.
Herons have a lovely shape. Simultaneously curvy yet angular.
Back to basics with Seago and we’re now at day 20 of 30 in 30. Not that Seago is basic mind you. Far from it. But after losing my way a bit on the last Venice effort it was time to back off and regroup a little.
Up early for this one – 6am start and it was still dark so the colors were a little hit and miss but it felt good.
Purely ultramarine and burnt sienna and put in very quickly with a squirrel mop
This is the original. Beautiful yes?
People today (no more flowers thank God) and we got to paint nude models. Charles was very wary of this and said we’d need all the luck we could get which shows you the amount of confidence he has in us.
This is mine – I went further than I would usually do with all the drapery and stuff which is probably too much but I didn’t care at that point.
It’s hard painting in workshops and I feel overly inhibited from trying much that’s new so everything is overly tentative. It’s worth coming to watch Charles paint however.
And this is his painting of the second pose.
This one was a ‘throw caution to the wind’ affair. After the first rather tight rendition of the flowers I wanted to see if I could inject a bit more energy into things. It was *really* tough and I didn’t know what the hell I was doing most of the time. It’s not perfect but I’m definitely moving the dial a little.
So this afternoon the first model was Gina. She has wonderful curly red hair and a really intense expression. She was great fun to paint and came out well.
First washes and some detail in the features. This was another 20 minutes (I’m speeding up).
More detail in the features and the start of the hair.
