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The importance of watery washes and some favourite green mixes

March 3, 2023 | 7 Comments
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Watercolour

   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...

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Thinking about values when sketching with watercolour

March 2, 2023 | 13 Comments
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On 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)...

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Starting my day with simple shapes, generous washes and a little watercolour magic

February 27, 2023 | 4 Comments
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It 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...

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The most complicated building in Sydney?

February 24, 2023 | 4 Comments
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Architecture SketchingSketching Sydney

I 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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