Leisure Painter - UK (2019 - Summer)

Watercolour pencils

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LindaBirch

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her work, workshops and

summer school by visiting

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Top of Honister Pass,

Caran d’Ache Supracolor

on Indian Khadi paper,

101 ⁄ 2 x 101 ⁄ 2 in. (27x27cm).

Finally, I wanted to try

watercolour pencils on a

rough-textured surface so

stretched a piece of

Indian Khadi paper. Dry

colours were scribbled on

the dry paper vigorously

to catch the ruggedness of

the subject then water

was sprayed with an

atomiser to encourage the

colours to run. Ground

colour was also sprinkled

onto the wet surface and

a black watercolour pencil

was used while all was

still wet to delineate the

mountain ranges.

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EXERCISE 3

How to use

a paper palette

My sketch of a Kent

church was painted

on Hot-pressed smooth

watercolour paper.

Colours used were:

ochre, yellow, scarlet,

burnt sienna, French

ultramarine, Prussian

blue, spruce, and black.

A palette made up of

thick paper and

scribbled colours was

an extremely useful way

of transporting painting

materials when

I wanted to travel light.

1 Make a dry palette

of heavily scribbled

squares of your colours

on a thick piece of

paper and use it to

create a little landscape.

2 To paint the sky and

land, lift the colours with a wet brush

and drop them onto damp paper,

allowing them to spread as washes.

3 When dry develop the distant

landscape and pond using wet colour

on some of the dry washes.

Kent Church, Caran d’Ache

Supracolor on HP paper,

63 ⁄ 4 x9in. (17x23cm)

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