Water Colour – Page 18 – The Consulting Artist

Learning to Paint – Camden Lock

Last Monday I spent a hugely enjoyable day aboard the Midnight Star. Huge thanks to Cap’n Glenn Le Santo and my wonderful crew mates. We boated up The Regent’s Canal from Limehouse Basin to Camden Lock. On arrival I painted a quick water colour sketch of the lock and footbridge. I had nowhere to mix colours up and boy does it show! Still – I’m committed to sharing everything I paint so here it is. Carole said she likes the way the image fades out around the edges 🙂

Learning to Paint – Back to Shore

Here’s a quick look over the shoulder, already! Before I started painting the holiday postcards I sat looking out to sea wondering where to start. As I sat there thinking about beach scenes I wondered wht it might look like staring back to land, from ship to shore. Before I knew it I had painted this little doodle and promptly stashed it in the back of my sketch book where it remained until last night. It just…fell out. There’s something about it I quite like, I hope you do too 🙂

Learning to Paint – Clover Flower

After struggling with trying to capture a landscape earlier in the day, I spotted a tiny clover flower on the way back from the pub in Braunton. In a case of one extreme to another I had a go at painting the flower when we got back to camp. It was raining when I painted this so I had to get a shift on, I think this attempt took me about two minutes start to finish.