Saturday, 25 July 2015
Daily Painting 24th July 2015
My Daily Painting for 24th July 2015. This is a beautiful watercolor of a Mermaids Purse and Knotted Wrack Seaweed. I have used white designer gouache as well as the watercolors, sometimes letting the colours merge wet-in-wet to give a very painterly effect. I have painted a sporadic, artistic wash of yellow and white around the outside of these beach-found objects. The Mermaids Purse and Seaweed were found on my favourite beech, Dunster Beach.I hope that you enjoy this painting.
Friday, 24 July 2015
Looking to The East, Chinese Watercolours
I am thoroughly enjoying painting in the Chinese method. The below photographs show my preparatory washes of blue and violet on one side of the paper and subsequent four washes of roasted twig tea on the front.
I lay the paper down onto a dry cloth, which is used as a base to absorb any extra paint or ink. It also serves as a protector of the delicate paper from the wood of my desk. The moon is painted using designers white gouache, sometimes mixed with watercolour paint, other times, I just use the white on it's own.
Black bamboo for inspiration in my studio. I have perfected painting bamboo and I will incorporate it into some of my future paintings. However, my first paintings will be centred around beautiful birds, namely the Spoonbill, Heron and my personal favourite, the Egret.
The art of Chinese painting lends itself to the meditative state, such as the preparation of the inks, by grinding them on slate first, whilst preparing for the painting to come.
The Chinese paper is totally different to traditional watercolour paper, being much more absorbent.
I lay the paper down onto a dry cloth, which is used as a base to absorb any extra paint or ink. It also serves as a protector of the delicate paper from the wood of my desk. The moon is painted using designers white gouache, sometimes mixed with watercolour paint, other times, I just use the white on it's own.
Black bamboo for inspiration in my studio. I have perfected painting bamboo and I will incorporate it into some of my future paintings. However, my first paintings will be centred around beautiful birds, namely the Spoonbill, Heron and my personal favourite, the Egret.
Dumortierite gem stones used as paperweights to the paper flat whilst drying.
The art of Chinese painting lends itself to the meditative state, such as the preparation of the inks, by grinding them on slate first, whilst preparing for the painting to come.
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Summer In England
Summer is well and truly underway with daylilies flowering extremely well at the moment, along with hollyhocks, lavenders, acanthus, roses, helenium and many others. I have just painted an Acanthus in oil colours, this one an oil on board....
Flowers from the artists garden.....
I am presently painting some flower pieces in the medium of Chinese Watercolour...coming to my Etsy gallery soon.
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