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
This week, I am experimenting with Anders Zorn’s reduced palette. As an oil painter this would have me using four tubes of paint: titanium white, ivory black, alizarin crimson or cadmium red and yellow ochre. As a watercolourist, I am
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
The way I came to watercolour painting, I learned that a smaller palette is more, that highly and purely pigmented paints are best and that you can mix all the colours you need yourself. I learned about neutral tones which
Righty-ho, this is the third attempt at getting the lights and darks right in this scene and an overall impression that I am happy with. I like this one best of all of them. I have tightened the composition a
I received a commission for a tricky piece of work this week, which has set me back for a day or two. So I’m not going to post the third painting in the series which I shared with you yesterday
Ich habe neulich ein ganz tolles Youtube-Video gesehen, dessen wichtigste Inhalte ich unbedingt mit euch teilen muss. Der indische Aquarellmaler Nitin Singh spricht darin über die fünf Gründe, warum die Aquarellmalerei Leute in die Verzweiflung treiben kann und Viele schlussendlich
Getting ready to work on a commissioned painting for me means lots of pencil sketches to figure our the composition and the values and some little colour studies to clarify that part to myself, too. I mostly have reference photos,
Today, I started my day with a little exercise in composition and tonal values. I found the exercise on Tom Hoffman’s GREAT website. Tom Hoffman often puts up value exercises, i.e. ways in which you can learn to create depth
This is a little moonscape that I am working on. I have taken photos from in between so you can see how the painting came together (or not). The stage it is at right now was to be the final
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