Let Your Colours Bloom
Much of what we were learning this week was about getting good clear colour.
The two mediums we use are Aquarelle Pencils and Watercolours.
Aquarelle pencils are for quick sketches where you are wanting to ‘bang’ your colour in and move on.
It’s also perfect in a museum or similar where they won’t allow paint. You can add a touch of water later to pop some of the darks.
Watercolour is the one everyone adores.
For us we take a ‘it doesn’t matter what happens’ approach, and slop one colour over another and leaving heaps of white. We want loose and we let the paint do the work. What happens is called ‘Bloom’. The granular effect is magical when one colour goes over another while still damp.
Darks are vital and look great when layering Cad Red over Ultramarine, full pigment. Be brave and ‘bang it in!’
MELBOURNE VIC.
Taste of Sketching Workshop.
So wonderful to see Jeanette our Melbourne tutor able to get back to sketching on location again.
A great day at Gasworks Park and several subjects were covered all beginning with shape and form, then layering of colour. Lunch at Priscilla Jones Cafe is a lovely reward while sketching.
BANGALOW NSW
Main Street Newrybar
We’re very fond of Newrybar, the little one horse town with such lovely old restored buildings. We were keen to do ‘Doorways’ and started with the front door at Harvest. The challenge is to get the darks inside the doorway but still have life going on inside and out.
Another doorway along the street had a lovely old window and big squishy sofa chairs on the verandah.
KINGSCLIFF NSW
Friday weekly Workshop.
We were looking at ‘What Colour is Water’ this week. It’s a popular one.
Our first sketches were in aquarelle pencil and making swatches of the colours we’d use.
For our next sketch we sat under the shade of the Pandanus trees and gazed out at the marvellous beach we have on our doorstep.
This time it was watercolour. Horizon line and curly waves and we had it nailed.
That’s it folks. We had such a good week again. Back here again next week.