This is today's output so far. The art was started while we were on holiday after I gave away a painting that Pauli liked. Drawing the Venetian scene using Yellow Ochre and a Daler Rowney Aquafine 10/0 'Liner' brush took about one and a quarter hours. It is painted on a 14 x 10 inch 'Lana' cold press 300 gsm fine grain watercolour block. A block has many sheets of watercolour paper gunned down on all four edges so that you paint on the upper sheet and when dry detach that sheet from the block. It means hassle free watercolour painting, without the need to tape the paper down onto a larger board.
On this occasion, I'm using Winsor & Newton Artist Quality watercolours:
Winsor Blue Green Shade
Winsor Lemon
Raw Sienna
Yellow Ochre
If you can't see the whole photograph, click on the image and it should open full in your browser. Blogger often crops photographs unless you resize them (small) in the full Windows online version of the page. The photograph shows the three distinct stages of this artwork to get where I am now.
I've imaged the boat using a WH Smith watercolour pencil of no distinct labelled colour (when producing cheap pencils, they have to cut down on production costs, so they don't label them).
The plan when dry is to detail the sea with the Winsor Blue G/S and the boat in green (mixed with the Winsor Blue G/S and the Winsor Lemon) and Blue Black. The watercolour pencil outline of the boat, should in the main, wash out. That's the joy of using watercolour pencils to map out the whole or part of a watercolour image.
The shadowing on the buildings etc., will be my usual mixture of Prussian Blue and Venetian Red. Well, with a scene of Venice, Venetian Red just sort of has to be used, doesn't it?
