Switching over to watercolour to try and get back some kind of sense of colour, I have veered too far and become garish! Fun, though.
These aren’t brilliant but I feel as if I’m slowly getting back towards a painting routine. Hope to have more to show soon.
Eek! A garish sky in watercolour ...
A rather watery one of the hill
… painting experiments are proceeding, involving watercolour and paper.
Unfortunately, nothing has emerged so far that’s good enough to share. It’s a long time since I used any watercolour but slowly I’m remembering its ways. Using very thick paper the process isn’t so dissimilar from oils in that you can work on a piece for quite a long time, adding and removing paint – but I hope to become a bit more spontaneous (the difficult thing) as I improve.
The idea is that watercolour will be used for the initial painting, hopefully capturing the vivid colours I want. Then I can remake the piece in oils trying to capture the brightness and light of the watercolour. Well, that’s the idea … we shall see. So far, the watercolour version is capturing the muddy murk of my worst oils, but I shall persevere.