Removing a Figure

Removing a Figure

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 of a Cherry Tree

Painting of a Cherry Tree

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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