Monday, 20 May 2024

A couple of tiny watercours - a couple of bridges

 Ransacking my old sketchbooks, I came across a couple of sketches of bridges; I know one is on the Isle of Wight, I'm not entirely sure where the other one was: maybe it's even another view of the same bridge.  The one with the green tree is 12 x 17 cm, the rather more wintry one is even smaller, at 10 by 10 cm.  Two Hahnemühle papers, the bigger one on their Rough Torchon, the other on Veneto.


Call me absent minded by all means, but as I used a couple of watercolour palettes, the portable type, with pans, and the colours aren't identified - I'm not sure what I used; but certainly Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna, a primary yellow, and Viridian.







Sunday, 5 May 2024



Acrylic on Seawhite wood panel, ca. 16 1/2" by 12" - using the most basic Daler Rowney Graduate acrylics, just to see what can be done with the cheapest paints I have - I was quite impressed by their quality: desaturated colours, very suitable for late Winter and very early Spring greens on the Isle of Wight coast: no need for brilliant colours here, unless you're one of those Scottish colourists de nos jours, who zhoosh everything up: which, I suppose, sells - though not to me.