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
On the Central Cemetary in Luneburg, in row 17 towards the Southern end, there’s a cistern positioned beautifully next to an old iron fence. A good subject for a limited palette? Probably, except that my painting is very mid-tony allover.
Rain is usually not a weather condition suited much to outdoor painting, at least not if, like me, you don’t own a painting umbrella which can be attached to the easel. But drizzle can work sometimes. Looking for an interesting
Yesterday was the first time in this cold season that I had to paint in the safety of my car. I was a bit pressed for time, and so I settled on a nature subject which I thought might work:
I was so enchanted with the limited colour choice I worked with last week that I have decided to stick with this principle of limiting myself for a while. This week I have locked my palette in with the following
Still working with the Zorn palette, still into them trees! It is quite unusual, to be honest, to use so much black in a watercolour painting. But I like it! It serves a good purpose, as does the yellow ochre.
Our little regional group of watercolour painters came together again yesterday, this time in order to paint dwarf beech trees (fagus sylvatica tortuosa). They are quite rare in Germany but there happens to be a small population of these (small)
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
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
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