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Learning to Paint – Postcards From the Edge #6

This picture is of a few old trees in Cimiez, Nice. This was painted on another very hot sunny day and I deliberately left a lot of white space to try and convey a sense of light and heat. This was painted for Sarah Matthews in water colours on water colour paper. What is water colour paper? It’s heavy for a start. Typical photocopy paper weighs in around 80gsm, and my sketch pad is 135gsm. My water colour paper is a heavy duty 300gsm and is cold pressed to give it a lovely textured surface. So now you know.

Keira likes this picture, preferring the tree on the right, do you have a favourite tree?

Learning to Paint – Postcards From the Edge #5

Whilst walking round the old town of Nice I spotted this street lamp bracketed high up on a wall near a shuttered window. This part of town has narrow streets and lots of lovely brown, red and yellow colours are mixed into the plaster on the walls of buildings. It is a striking place to go for a stroll. This postcard was painted for Alison Chisnell using water colours on water colour paper.

Learning to Paint – Postcards From the Edge #3 and #4

These next two paintings are of La Musee Matisse in Cimiez on the outskirts of Nice.

These next two paintings are of La Musee Matisse in Cimiez on the outskirts of Nice. I’m a huge admirer of Matisse and his fantastically diverse body of work, he is an inspiration. The first painting was done for David Goddin (I drew this very quickly – deliberately to see if I could capture something in a hurry and I’ve included a photo of the building so you can see for yourself if I “got it” or not). The second view is for Hazel Bedson (I think I got the perspective a bit wrong on the right hand side of the building, oops!). Both are water colour on card.