Past Posts - Sharing the Journey

My process in creating a floral work of Black Tulip Magnolia

Painting from life adds so much to the journey of a painting. Of course it is not always possible and so we do need a good collection of reference material.

Understanding colour mixing in watercolour is so important if fresh bright and clean colours are wanted.

Having just purchased a few new pigments from Holbein I was keen to test them in a painting.

Not all floral paintings need to be pretty. By choosing to paint Artichokes it allows the use of darker colours and plenty of texture.

Mixing fresh secondary colour Purple

wet into wet and wet on dry watercolour techniques

With fewer tubes of pigment and learning everything about them will help your paintings work

Lucious Darks to paint Hollyhocks

There are always a few final tweaks needed when painting

Painting white Peonies

Painting in black and white for watercolour

Painting a floral in watercolour

Using our values to paint Monochromatic

Mixing bright secondary colours

Painting a White Subject

Starting from a simple inspiration and using your creative mind to work intuitively and finding your way to the completion of the painting. A favourite way of creating an Original work every time.

Show up and just paint

Finding new art products to try

Challenge your observation skills, brush strokes and though process will all improve

Mix juicy darks, lift out and create texture for the feathers

Creating Abstract in purely watercolour is a slow process of building on washes with glazes, texture and more mark making until you feel you are happy and can call it done.

Making all the "what I need" decisions before you start painting will ensure you can focus on the magic of water and pigment and not on what next!