Keep on track of getting the white and black stripes in the right place
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Black Tulip Magnolia
30 Sep 2022
My process in creating a floral work of Black Tulip Magnolia
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Painting from Life
5 Aug 2022
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.
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Mixing Oranges
24 Jul 2022
Understanding colour mixing in watercolour is so important if fresh bright and clean colours are wanted.
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Playtime with Bertie
14 Jul 2022
Having just purchased a few new pigments from Holbein I was keen to test them in a painting.
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Using a Palette Knife
11 Jul 2022
Not all floral paintings need to be pretty. By choosing to paint Artichokes it allows the use of darker colours and plenty of texture.
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Mixing Purples
9 Jul 2022
Mixing fresh secondary colour Purple
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Tulips
3 Jul 2022
wet into wet and wet on dry watercolour techniques
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Colour Mixing
26 Jun 2022
With fewer tubes of pigment and learning everything about them will help your paintings work
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Painting Hollyhocks
19 Jun 2022
Lucious Darks to paint Hollyhocks
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Making the Final Tweaks
8 Jun 2022
There are always a few final tweaks needed when painting
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Peony - Intuitive Floral
4 Jun 2022
Painting white Peonies
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Pelican Study
29 May 2022
Painting in black and white for watercolour
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Intuitive Floral
26 May 2022
Painting a floral in watercolour
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Painting in Monochromatic
19 May 2022
Using our values to paint Monochromatic
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Using Greens
4 May 2022
Mixing bright secondary colours
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Alpaca
19 Apr 2022
Painting a White Subject
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Hide and Seek
27 Mar 2022
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.
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Just Paint
4 Mar 2022
Show up and just paint
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Autumn Delight
25 Apr 2021
Finding new art products to try
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It's About the Challenge
2 Aug 2020
Challenge your observation skills, brush strokes and though process will all improve
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Black Swan and Cygnet
24 Apr 2020
Mix juicy darks, lift out and create texture for the feathers
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Leap of Faith with Abstracts
27 Mar 2020
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.
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Painting of Fringe Freddie
25 Feb 2020
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!