Clouds clouds everywhere… well that’s normally the case when you live in Cumbria. With us seeing so much cloud I decided to paint some 😉
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Would you beleaf it?
Wandering round the garden this morning (after the fun job of cleaning out the chickens) and I started to pick up a few leaves. I wasn’t cleaning the garden or anything as radical as that, I was picking up any leaf that caught my eye. Returning to the house my intention was to take a few macro photographs of the leaves for a bit of fun 😉 however when I lay them on the table I decided to photograph them as they were – As I was photographing them I…
Read MoreIt’s been a while
For one reason or another I’ve not had chance to get the watercolours out for what feels like years, so I decided to make the effort and get my eye in again with a small practice piece. Now I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reference photographs which I take and file for just such occasions. Living where we do surrounded by such excellent scenery it would be difficult not to have a reasonable selection of reference images really. This is of course why I ended up painting something…
Read MoreFrom photo to painting
I decided to work from one of my photographs taken during this trip into a watercolour. Here is the reference image – And here is the watercolour – I need to practice a bit more getting a few more layers into the background, but it was an enjoyable painting to work on in the end.
Read MoreWe Failed
We failed at building a scarecrow, for some odd reason we attracted more crows than we scared…. A4 Watercolour
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