Beach party at Barricane

After a blissful weekend of hot sun and fun little waves in North Devon, I found an hour to do a little painting. Blissed our and exhausted this one stayed as loose as my arms after a 4 hour surf! 

Original watercolour, 24x31cm for sale £125 

When I'm cleaning windows

I painted this same view almost a year ago and yesterday's sunshine inspired me to tackle it again. I spent a lot more time on the drawing of the dome and windows, and I was rewarded with the window cleaner making an appearance! I mixed cerulean with a bit of ultramarine for the sky and washed that onto a carefully wetted area, I lifted out some clouds with tissue then darkened the bottom of them with ultramarine , red and some Chinese white. 

I built up the dome with several thin glazes of cobalt teal and white trying very hard to not go too dark. The shadow white of the building was a mix of purple and white with varying amounts of water. 

The rest was a case of slapping all the foliage in trying to get a nice loose mix of greens.

Quinacridine Gold was used for the lights and huge bolts in the bridge bits. 

Finally I used some Naples yellow mixed with some of my bridge green to overlay the railings.

Original watercolour, 31x41cm Arches 640gsm £295 framed.