I started this one on friday, it's a small practice piece, that I decided to do on gessoed paper which, amongst other things, allows for easy lifting of colour, a technique which I love, and use an awful lot..... some of my artist friends, watercolourists, often 'loosen up' by doing small pieces on various supports (canvas, paper, masonite) that have been gessoed prior to starting on a bigger piece on paper. The gessoed surface allows for a level of manipulation, experimentation and reworking that cannot be achieved so easily on paper, and some fantastic results can be achieved - and if it doesn't work out, stick it under the tap, rinse away the paint, dry it, and off you go again... Often, in my mind, the practice pieces are better than the main work...
The building shown at centre is sort of ...well, it's stolen from Robin Hood's Bay and hacked about a bit, everything else I made up as I went along, and is pure Vyv Green....
It's likely I shall be doing some more of these over the next few days - seeing that I have a full sheet of paper gessoed up and cut up and sitting there...... perhaps then, if the muse appears, I might consider doing a bigger piece.... long overdue....
Watercolour, pen and ink with gouache hi-lights on gessoed 200lb Bockingford paper... 5" x 7"
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