Hello dears! I hope you are all doing well. Do you remember my recent series on limited palettes? I used a different one each week in October last year (you can see the results and reflections about them here, here and
Villa Olga which I have sketched before; the Salt City Swing Band playing a gig (it was amazing!!); and my beautiful hairdresser Simone. Hier sind ein paar Skizzen der letzten Tage: Villa Olga, die ich erst vor kurzem gezeichnet habe;
The true pain for any plein air painter is that she can never paint all the beautiful subjects which deserve to be painted. I felt this pain acutely yesterday on my paint-out in the Botanical Gardens in Hanover. They are
I have two weeks of painting with a reduced palette under my belt – what can I say about this approach so far? In the first week I used the Zorn palette adapted to watercolour: yellow ochre, alizarin crimson and
I’m sure I mentioned before that I am sometimes pretty uninspired when I set out in order to sketch. I am, and I was when I set out in the afternoon two days ago. But it’s getting better: I know
We went and visited the birthplace of the Reformation, Wittenberg, last week. As per usual when out and about with family, I didn’t expect to get much sketching, let alone painting done, and so I was super glad when the
I have visited this here castle so many times to walk in its grounds and I have also stayed there as a guest so often that any image of it immediately exudes a feeling of home for me. It helps,
At the monastery again on the weekend: This time I felt confronted by a plethora of roofs. Honestly, whichever way I was turning, there they were! I did a more considered watercolour painting which I need to ponder for a
The other day, I let myself by inspired by a German sketcher who fills his waterbrushes with ink and then makes wonderfully monochromatic drawings. Totally the copy-cat that I am, I filled one of mine with W&N non-waterproof ink and
I don’t do a lot of watercolour sketching these days; it’s either sketching in ink or watercolour painting with the easel. It took a while for me to notice how I had more or less stopped doing what I used
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