International Artist – June-July 2019

Watercolour Workshop 113

Those little coffee sketches were a lot of fun, so once back home in the studio, I decided to take the idea a little further. This time

rather than airline coffee, I went out into the garden and gathered some things that looked like they would yield interesting colors—a

handful of grass, geranium flowers, yellow berries off a purple flowering bush and some charcoal from a barbecue. These materials

were ground up finely and mixed with water to make a colored stain. I used them to then add color to the sketch of a Venetian facade.

The subject of a Venetian facade was drawn straight onto the paper
with a fine tipped permanent marker.

Because the colors at my disposal were very pale, I added the darks

by hatching with the marker. I concentrated the darks around the

gondoliers and the main door of the building to create a focal point.