Well Watercolour 4 is nearly finished. Its not too bad but needs alot of tidying up around the edges to sharpen the leaves etc but not bad for 2 hours painting I think. It alsoo didn’t help that the plants I had drawn from last week were past their best and the colours weren’t at their freshest. Still struggling with watercolour paints and trying not to get too much blodging of colour. I constantly find it amazing how much detail my tutor can put into a painting with what appears to be only a few brushstrokes but I have to remind myself he has been doing it for years. In fact he started as a porcelain painter at Royal Worcester before moving into book illustrations etc.
Anyway, next week he is going to show me have to finish it off and then we are moving on to a Nectarine. At first I thought great that will be easy another coloured ball like the beetroot but then I thought about all the colours in a Nectarine and now I’m not sure sure, but at least it isn’t a peach!!
I love this … so perfect for spring!
Oh well done Helen – can’t believe you did that in just two hours! Snowdrops is hard. My mum used to paint porcelain at Royal Worcester too for a short spell back in the ’50s
I imagine though that your tutor will probably be younger than my mum so they will not have met. Oh a peach would be harder than a nectarine with all that velvety bloom.
You’re definitely living up to the first part of your blogname. Well done
Very lovely. You’ve got the different shades of green perfectly.
You’ve really captured the delicacy of snowdrops in your painting. Lovely.
Those are lovely! I can almost see them nodding when the wind blows. Very nice, especially if you are only just learning!
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