Saturday 30 June 2018
by Wulf
Comments Off on Saving the Best for Last?
Is this my best painting from the 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 project? I had a welter of different ideas for what to paint for the final day of this month-long project. What about another self portrait? What about that Buddleja globosa, for which … Continue reading
Friday 29 June 2018
by Wulf
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Today I’ve been at the ICTF2018 conference in Oxford – lots of IT people from Oxford (and a few welcome guests from Cambridge) to hear a range of talks on IT themes, some general and some very technical. The venue … Continue reading
Thursday 28 June 2018
by Wulf
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Today’s watercolour is a quick sketch of some rosemary: Given time, it would probably be sensible to try ten or twenty such sketches to really begin to explore what can be done. Here I was just beginning to experiment with … Continue reading
Wednesday 27 June 2018
by Wulf
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For today’s 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 painting, I’ve gone for an abstract reworking of an old photo of mine: The original image was taken at Carfax in Oxford at the start of Queens Street not long after I first moved to the city. … Continue reading
Tuesday 26 June 2018
by Wulf
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Earlier this year, one of my birthday presents was Tate Watercolour Manual: Lessons from the Great Masters by Tony Smibert and Joyce Townsend (Tate Enterprises, 2014). It is another watercolour manual but has a particular focus on techniques and approaches from … Continue reading
Monday 25 June 2018
by Wulf
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On a recent trip to RHS Rosemoor, I took a photo of a gorgeous white rose and, for today’s 30x30DirectWatercolour2018 painting, I tried to render it in watercolour: I’m not wild about the result although the smaller it gets, the … Continue reading
Sunday 24 June 2018
by Wulf
Comments Off on Messin’ With The Wrong Paper
I did today’s watercolour painting quite early this morning but I’m only just getting around to posting it: This was a very quick sketch using colours on my palette and entirely inappropriate paper for the medium. Watercolourists tend to go … Continue reading