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panbiker
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As there are a number of artists among our midst, I thought I would start a topic for watercolour painting.
Ian
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blokman
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 09:54
Thanks for those comments, it is really encouraging, the stonework is basically a pale raw sienna/ yellow ochre wash then painting te individual stones ( very randomly ) with a mix of raw sienna / burnt umber. You can then highlight different stones with a mix of alizarin crimson raw sienna and paynes grey. The stonework on the mill was a more grey colour so for that I used a wash of ultramarine and a touch of the crimson. It is easier if you pecil in some of the stonework initially to give you a bit of a guide, but try not to get it too symetrical. I have used the technique of putting a couple of washes on, and then scratching out the detail with a pallete Knife, but not n this painting....
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Tizer
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 10:22
Rob, thanks for showing us all those scans of the different stages of your painting. It's all magic to me and I like seeing how it's done. My brain works in words rather than pictures and I've never been able to paint or sketch. I can draw very neat diagrams and that's about it. If I try sketching a building from real life it doesn't work - as if my brain can't get it from three into two dimensions. But seeing how you sketch from a photo is interesting - perhaps I could do it from a photo because the conversion into two-dimensions is already done for me.
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 10:44
Block, painting looks really good. Have you tried "lifting out" colour from a recently dried area with a wettish clean brush. This give muted paler areas of colour and is particularly suited to stonework giving in places a natural looking variation. Worth having a fidle with on some scrap paper. Nolic
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blokman
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 12:01
Thanks Nolic, that is a good tip, I do use a sort of lifting out technique for creating clouds, either with the big wash brush or tissue paper, but have'nt tried it on stonework..
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blokman
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 12:04
Tizer, give it go, I had never picked up a watercolour brush till January, until I looked into the method, I had never realised that the start point was the pencil sketch.
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belle
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 13:01
enjoyed that..is it just me or did you tone the sky down as you went along... i loved the dark and moody colour it was when you first did it.
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Sue
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 13:22
Thanks Rob. All the stonework I have done so far has been by using a credit card to scratch out the stonework. It works well on a bridge but I have not been too happy with the building. I will find an example to show you
Sue
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blokman
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 13:37
Belle, no I didnt touch the sky after the initial washes, it could be the fact that it had dried lighter, or possibly the effect of the flash from the camera. In the flesh it does still look quite forbidding, I put a yellow ochre wash on in the centre for light then ultramarine with a touch of alizarin crimson for the top of the sky. I then put a darker sky colour for highlights.
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blokman
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 13:42
Sue, you could try the credit card on the buildings stonework then add in some highlights with "stone" colours. Speaking from my standpoint of very little experience, it seems to be the element of randomness that makes the stonework look realistic. Its almost a dabbing effect.....
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Sue
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 14:03
Here we go. I wanted to do an old stone cottage I searched through photos and found one. First of all I tried my drawing skills. I prepared a charcoal background and copied the elements of the photo I wanted, mainly the derelict walls and fallen stones.
I then used this picture to sketch the key elements on to my watercolour paper . I then painted this sketch leaving the background bland.I was trying to portray the effect of isolation and loneliness, and I felt that the stones and the wall were they key things. I did an undercoating of a mixture of phthalo blue and paynes grey followed by burnt umber and finally paynes grey on top. I tried different ways of combining these for the best effect. . I then scraped out the stones in rows but in random sizes.
The final stage of development was to repaint the picture with some background scenery. This was painted simply from my experience of walking.
I need to redo the final version as I was not happy with the greens and the shape of the path through the farm yard.
This was really an exercise to see if I copuld create an atmosphere or mood of isolation rather than copy a picture. Comments would be welcome
Sue
Edited by - Sue on 08/10/2008 2:05:45 PM
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blokman
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 16:29
Hi Sue,
Love the rockface in the background, the stonework looks realistic, the only suggestion I would make would be to perhaps use more earthy tones in the stonework washes and perhaps again make it more random..
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Sue
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 16:43
The trouble with random stone work it doesn't represent the stone work of these old cottages which is very regular and black due to years of industrial pollution. Walls of course are less regular and I have tried tos how that with the wall on the left in the second picture. Its difficult to go a bit paler with this method as the paint needs to be very thick to get a good effect when using the credit card
Sue
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blokman
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Posted - 10/10/2008 : 21:29
This is a watercolour that I did of Gibson Mill near Hebden Bridge, different view of the same mill that I painted the other day.
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Sue
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Posted - 11/10/2008 : 10:48
Brilliant. Sue
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blokman
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Posted - 11/10/2008 : 12:03
Thanks Sue, just trying to psyche myself up to paint in some figures in the yard area.
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