The park in our garden is bursting with atumn colour, With a wide variety of oak trees as well as cherry trees, and pine trees, olive trees and others I cant remember the name of. It is quite daunting conveying all the different nuances of ochres. but the process is what is important and the joy that comes from doing it. As always.
Watercolour and pen in Stillman and birn beta sketchbook.
A rough drawing to get going.
All sketches done on watercolour block with pen and watercolour
I am always tempted to paint a coffee corner with tables and chairs. At the moment there isn’t much colour around, but very soon all the roses and flowers will be in bloom and everything will be green. And people will start gathering around a table.
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Two chairs and table, 20x20cm, watercolour and pen on watercolour paper.
The bulbs are pushing up everywhere and now is the perfect time to do do some flower sketching. I enjoyed doing this sketch and getting on with flowers again. Afterwards I decided to add pen. (second image)
So, pen or pencil?
Daffodils , watercolour on watercolour paper.
Daffodils, pen and watercolour on watercolour paper
I don’t know the name of this rose,but it is a lovely soft yellow climbing rose and overflowing with blooms in June. I love yellows and oranges in summer with a lot of white and accents of blue. Isn’t nature perfect in its inspration?
Yellow rose in watercolour and pen on Arches watercolour block
Some subject are painted again and again and they never look the same, like sunflowers. I have done sunflowers in 2007, then in 2010, 2011, 2014 and now again. they are just wondeful to paint/sketch…the colour alone gives me huge kick when slapping it onto the paper. Sometimes my painting/sketching didn’t work, but I enjoyed painting sunflowers every time. So, before the season runs out, I need to get some sunflowers done in oil…looking forward to that.
Sunflower 1: Watercolour and pen, watercolour block, 30x30cm
Sunflower 2: Watercolour and pen, watercolour block, 3030cm
à bientôt
Ronell
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