When we had the good weather a few weeks ago I made the best of it (and good thing I did too, given the grump grey wet weather we’re having now). I completed two good landscape watercolours in one day, the first a watercolour of a famous local building, a 1930’s electrical substation.
The next was a view of Kingston bridge trying to include the modernist building that was erected on the ruins of a house (shame that didn’t stay, would make a good watercolour or drawing subject now, I do have photos though).
The successful day made up for the Monday – here is an abandoned watercolour of the ‘Achelous’ barge, was done a few days earlier but it was Saturday and there was too many people. So I bailed (might revisit that on a quieter day) and then went to Hampton Court Park, which I thought would be quieter. It was, but sadly by then it late and the sun was setting, and I messed up the colours, I couldn’t get the greeny-gold colour I wanted…
Also started with the shadows, which was a mistake – what you should do with watercolour is build up slowly light > dark. But I had no time to do that…
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