Leisure Painter - UK (2019 - Summer)

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ColinJoyce

Based in Fife, Scotland, Colin works

in both oils and watercolours. He

is available for demonstrations and

workshops for art groups throughout

the UK. Colin tutors both in the UK and

overseas as well as regularly exhibiting

at Patchings Art, Craft & Design Festival

in July each year (see pages 12 and

13 for details). To find out more visit

http://www.colinjoyceart.com or email

[email protected]

Step 6 Final steps

1 Now is the time to look carefully at the

painting. I needed to give the water texture

to imply the shadows and wind blowing on it.

A mix of cobalt blue with a touch of grey left

in the palette was applied with the small

Round brush in the foreground water area.

2 Next I drew the figure with a pencil before

adding colour with the small Round brush.

I suggested the figure was resting his foot on a

small rock as he surveys the scene before him.

3 Having allowed this all to dry I decided on

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a risky strategy. I felt the entire area of the

background hills needed warming up and

wished I had thought about this before

I painted all those trees. I dug out a 2in. flat

brush from my unnecessarily large range of

brushes and made up a very large watery

pool of yellow ochre and burnt sienna. I lay

the painting flat and gently glazed over the

entire hillside to create that extra warmth.

I got away with it and, yes, it did the trick.

The painting was finished.

tThe finished painting Loch Maree, watercolour on Saunders Waterford High White Rough watercolour paper, 15x22in. (38x56cm)

Step 5 Trees

1 The trees are next and there are quite a few

of them to do. Mix more of the ultramarine

blue and burnt sienna for the task. Use the

Rigger brush to paint the tree trunks, stroking

up from the ground to an appropriate height.

Be careful to avoid regular gaps and be

random in your spacing. Use the photograph

as reference here, but don’t try to copy exactly.

2 Use the swordliner brush to add the leaves

and small branches. These brushes are

marvellous at holding a lot of paint while

allowing very fine detail to be applied.

Hold the brush by the very end of the

handle furthest away from the ferrule when

you want to make random marks and close

to it when precision is required.

3 It’s quite a task painting so many trees

so take a rest part way through rather than

become clumsy in an attempt to finish

the painting.

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