It’s been a long time since I posted anything, but the sun is out so a good excuse to get drawing. Took my sketchbook and some watercolours to St James’s Park on Sunday and sat in the sun for a bit. I’ve not done a lot of sketching with water colours outdoors before but thought the day called for a bit of bright colour.
Not doing a lot of painting at the moment, but I did a lot in May. Looking back through them there’s a few I didn’t get around to posting. Here’s one of them.
Starting to get used to some bits of watercolour but not others, so easy to go too far and there’s no undo button
Another watercolour, been throwing a lot of paint about during May, enjoying it but finding an A4 page is a bit limiting so the aim for June is to go large and throw more paint about.
Slowly working through the big block of watercolour paper I bought at the end of March, it’s going to take a while.
Another one for the Cass Art watercolour challenge. The challenge is to do 50 watercolours in May, I’m not going to do that but I’m getting motivated to get a bit more paint on paper. Next sheet is stretched on the drawing board and ready to go.
Aiming to get a lot of water colour onto paper this month. Using the Cass Art Watercolour Challenge as motivation to get more painting done. Have stretched the paper ready for the next one, going to try and do one a day for the rest of May, maybe, maybe not.
I bought a 50 sheet Jumbo Watercolour pad from Cass Art at the end of March, with the aim of getting a lot of painting done, it hasn’t quite worked out like that so far, April has just been too busy I’ve only used 6 pages so far. Noticed on the Cass Art blog that they’re running a Watercolour Challenge this month to create and tweet up to 50 watercolour drawings by 31st May. I’ve got 44 pages left so going to give it a bit of a go, bit of motivation to get painting again, don’t think I’ll get anywhere near that but if I get halfway there, that’ll be a productive month. Haven’t used Twitter much so far but if you want to follow my progress I’m at: @martinsdoodles
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Painted this a couple of weeks ago and didn’t get around to finish it, added an ink drawing over it last night while half watching telly.
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