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Removing a Figure
- by Geoff Kersey
It is a popular belief that correcting or altering a watercolour painting is very difficult if not impossible.
For this reason many people prefer oil or acrylic, because with an opaque medium such as these, you can more or less “paint over” any mistakes.
With this in mind I thought you might be interested in a quite serious alteration I have just made to one of the painting projects in my online tutorials.
Painting a Tree in Autumn
- by Geoff Kersey
I took this photo on a long afternoon walk in Watermillock in the Lake District a few weeks ago. It started off as a sunny afternoon, but by the time I came across this tree, it had clouded over and become quite dull. However it struck me that the colours were so warm and bright that, even on a dull afternoon, it seemed to almost possess its own light.
Martinique
- by Geoff Kersey
I have had a few requests from members to do another street/city scene, so bearing this in mind I printed out this picture I took of a busy day in Martinique, in the Caribbean when we were there on holiday last November.
A busy street scene like this is a bit out of my comfort zone, so I took a small section of the scene that contained figures and building structures, drew it out and did a bit of experimenting.
Painting of a Cherry Tree
- by Geoff Kersey
Sitting in the garden in April I noticed how the blossom on the Wild Cherry tree, just the other side of the garden wall, had come on leaps and bounds in just a couple of days.
It occurred to me that this would make a good little painting exercise, so I popped the other side of the wall and took a photo.
Bearing in mind that with watercolour, depicting white areas, is more about what we leave out than what we put in, this could be quite a challenging subject, but I hope you’ll agree, good fun to...
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