We had a lovely day yesterday painting our Venice scene. It wasn't as simple as the title suggested! There was quite alot of drawing to start with, to get the important skyline of buildings just right, they create a silhouette that can only be Venice.
Keeping in the watery Venice style, it was a painting that had several washes and we needed a good strong paper to take all the water we were brushing on. Claire had brought some Saunders Waterford paper, which is a very good quality 300lb heavyweight paper and perfect for the technique we were using of very loose washes, very typical of Claire's painting style (and also perfect for when she splashed her painting with the wrong paint, and was able to get it out, a thinner paper would have worn out, we all learnt a very useful technique there!)
We also had two new colours today, which were gorgeous, a green called Viridian, and a purple called Manganese Violet, both of which we used for the Gondolas, they were so vibrant, we had to be quite careful when mixing them up not to make them too strong.
It was a very chilled day, the sun shone, and we heard about two proposal stories from Venice!
We are now breaking for the Easter with Watercolour and will be back on Wednesday 28 April for Sunflowers in Provence, a lovely, big sunny painting.
2 comments:
Loved this workshop, and using the good quality Saunders Waterford paper Claire demonstrated on. MUST have some of that.
Also the new colours we used were exciting. Claire always has lots of new techniques and ideas to teach and demonstrate at her workshops.
Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you, all your paintings were amazing. I've found a really good frame for mine at The Craftsman in Newbury (link on the Treetops website).
If you need any materials, remember you can order them via me, and Claire will bring them to the next Workshop, or she may have them at her Treetops Shop at the next class.
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