Today's Watercolour Class with Claire was Cricket on the Green.
We had an experienced group in today, so Claire had put together a painting full of things to challenge us, the first thing was getting the drawing angle and perspective correct on the cricket square.
We spent quite a long time on our drawings!
There were aspects we could add or take away, it was our own picture to create, so some added a village square in the background, more trees, fence etc
Most people were very worried about the people.
Claire demonstrated her 'peas and carrots' theory, so we could get the ratios right, we used masking fluid to keep them white whilst we applied our washes.
We finished our cricketers with shadow, shading, hair and hats, they looked fantastic!
Not everyone managed to finish, it was a long day! The two paintings below are almost done.
One of our artists had bought along a photograph of a cricket green special to them, so it was lovely to see it coming to life.
