Tissue dress patterns as substrate

  Staithes 

Random lines using dress making pattern glued on to canvas board  then watercolour added.

Drawing added then white acrylic 

Whitby East Bank

Robin Hoods Bay

Watercolour painting finished.

Finished two watercolour paintings of Craster looking south.

Craster morning

The rains are coming Craster

Also complete a fun watercolour with black lines.

Random blocks of colour using a 1/2" flat brush, some cling film and some splattering.

And finally completing the watercolour of Whitby.

Half way stage.

Whitby Church St.

Dark foreground shadow, cast shadow on gable end and some attempt to dirty up the painting as if seemed to clean with splattering and secondary washes.

Re worked watercolours

Original watercolour of the Lower Ogwen Valley in North Wales

Blue wash added to background, stronger tone added to the foreground

and the left hand tree softened with wet cotton wool just pressed on the the paper to weaken the tone.

Original watercolour of  Tal y Lyn Ogwen Farm at the head of the lake from from a sketch done on our holiday in LLanberis.

Extra tone added to background mountains and the pine trees . Re-worked the trees around the farm and added an overall wash to the stone walls and the foreground grass.

Acrylic on 12 x 10 board with textured gesso using bubble wrap and credit card.

Overall wash of cadmium yellow and red then phthalo blue and green added to base.

Sky add - building blocked out at the top  and sided with titanium white with the bottom being faded out. Trees added with ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. Chimneys added in white and sky colour used for the roof.

Some black pen work added to house and the suggestion of a gate

Started watercolour of Church Street in Whitby with an overall wash from the sky to the bottom using a light wash of blue for whites in shadow and the sun sit sides with water to stop differential drying which will buckle the paper even at 200 lb weight- I don't like using masking fluid.

The buildings were added using a variegated wash with a rigger. 

Whitby

Gif showing development of Whitby 199 steps

Whitby Harbour

Uploaded picture to Artfinder. Watercolour on bockingford 200 lb paper - size 15 x 11 inches.

link to Artfinder

Whitby Holiday at Lot 4 Old Auction Rooms

Drawn from seat above Kybar Pass looking over to the 199 steps. Another artist sketching the same  in coloured pencils and pens in front of me completing what he started yesterday.

Reference photo

Church Street over the swing bridge looking back to old Town Hall. Right amount of white and tower in the right place. Drawn from computer.

Reference photo

Whitby rooftops from view point in Cliff Street above the short stay car park.

Face in the cliff profile -could if by Dracula ?

Reference photo

All drawn on Tuesday 

Friday early morning

Overall wash and textured with spectacles lens cleaner spray on to wet wash. Drawn with bamboo stick with watercolour paints and blocked in using piece of mount card. Done on location sitting on the east pier looking south to the start of 199 steps.

200 lb Hahnemuhle paper in a block. Size 30 x 40 cms

Sketching materials.

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