Old Harry Rocks Again

Todays painting is another watercolour of Old Harrys Rocks in Dorset. I wanted to capture the swirling water in the foreground. Size 27.5 by 18.5 cm

French Fields Watercolour background and gouache foreground.

Had fun painting "french fields" in watercolour for the bright background working light to dark in a traditional watercolour manner and then painting the foreground dark to light like you would an oil painting but using gouache which is basically opaque watercolour. A few sections of this painting could be compositions in their own right.

For the background I used Gaston Balande's work "view of the village of lauzières with the house of balande" recently sold at auction in France. I printed it out, its an oil shown below and on my work in progress.

Fish Market in Venice

I have joined the Society for All Artists (Saa) to challenge myself as I often lack direction but want to paint. I am going to take part in their competitions and online workshops. Here is one that I took part in today but did my own thing as they were doing watercolours and I tend to paint dark to light like an oil painter which means I tend to stray to the gouache when doing watercolours and work from dark to light. I like strong colours too! I started in a watercolour way then used watercolour pencils then gouache then finally I vanrnished.

Final work before removing the tape and below is the reference photo provided by Saa