Painting with Gouache

 Working with three colours of gouache after a demo from Andy Taylor on the subject.

 Andy initial washes.

"Scottish Garden"

 Colour blocks painted with 1/2 in flat nylon flat brush

 Washed under the tap to soften the colour- I liked the way the Prussian blue had run in the bottom left corner to create a possible sky and water.
 

 

Elevation view of Charles Remmie Mackintosh's of Hill House with his stylised roses added to the foreground. Painted weak white acrylic to soft the colour in the house.

Second attempt trying to let the blue paint the landscape. Some brown added to near piece of land.

 Ran the painting under the tap to wash out the blue and let it run from the mountains down into the lake then sprayed the mountains to run into the sky and blotted the clouds with kitchen roll. This was on an unstretched sheet of 200 lb Bockingford not paper which bowed resulting in some uneven marks in the foreground. Timing is critical as some of the wetter marks washed out completely.
 

Sponged out the water and added ripples and repainted the main peak.

"Langdale Pikes from Windermere"

May add some near foreground with stream entering the lake?

Another go on 1/4 imperial sheet using a flat brush with a ruler to create the ripples

Cumbrian cottages and farms

 Nanny Lane Troutbeck Cumbria

Watercolour  on Bockingford not paper

 Troutbeck Farm from B&W photo

Brown ink drawn with kebab stick and watercolour added.

 Another painting of Nanny Lane Troutbeck concentrating on the lane as a lead in.

 Demonstration painting using plastic film to mask the building to allow for a loose watercolour approach using cling film and salt to create texture.

 Long Mere Yeat Troutbeck Cumbia

Watercolour on Bockingford not paper

Coniston Cottages

Saunders Waterford HP paper