Small Watercolours as we ease into the year!

 I've been playing with a few small watercolours and drawings in ink in the first month of the year - one or two health issues proving troublesome, so I've not been in the mood for anything big - still, I can use these as the basis for larger works when it gets a bit warmer and - with any luck - I start feeling better.

Knowles Farm, towards Niton Village

The lower one is also based on the Knowles Farm area, just another part of it: looks quite scenic until you try walking through it, when you discover that a legion of cows has marched through before you, and left their calling cards.  The one just above it - I made it up, the composition taken from an online photograph.  These little studies are on Hahnemühle Rough Torchon paper, 12 x 17cm.                       

Just a bit of a play with the hake

 

This is a better than nothing effort - had a bit of paper to hand, some watercolour left in palette, so took the hake brush to it -from a photograph of mine at Knowles Farm, Niton, IW.   And not a recent one, the greens were abundant at the time, and so were the cow-pats.  Started with a play-about with Davy's Grey, then added a bit of colour on top.  Just to prove I'm not in complete hibernation.  

Lightfastness issues with Alizarin Crimson

 Normal service has been suspended due to bad light, Christmas festivities, a bit of illness, and sheer laziness. 

 But I thought this link from Golden Paints/Williamsburg would be of interest to painters in both oil and watercolour.

Note that this doesn't apply to "Alizarin Crimson" in acrylic, because acrylics don't (and can't) use the real PR83 pigment.  

https://justpaint.org/alizarin-crimson-now-you-see-it/