In Monday’s article, I mentioned the need to be generous with pigment and water in order to get lively ‘juicy’ washes. This is because the most common mistake when starting to paint with watercolour (particularly in the context of urban sketching – using travelling palettes and a waterbrush) is to use washes that are...
CONTINUE READINGOn Monday I shared two important skills for watercolour sketching – seeing scenes as simple shapes and being generous when creating washes. I also mentioned a third important skill which is to see colour as value. This image shows one of the exercises inside my Watercolour course where we explore the way that hue (colour)...
CONTINUE READINGIt never ceases to amaze me how satisfying it is to start my workday by sitting outside and putting a few watercolour washes on paper. There is something so special about mixing pigments and water in my palette… … and then watching what happens when the wash hits the page of my sketchbook. I guess...
CONTINUE READINGI haven’t been sketching much architecture on location lately (when was the last time I sketched a JimmyB building?) so it was a little bit of a shock to the system to tackle a part of Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday evening. It really is an elaborate building so I needed to use all of...
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