The Artist - UK (2020-03)

22 artistMarch 2020 http://www.painters-online.co.uk

WATERCOLOUR

meets a wall, where we think – or know

• there must be a line where they touch.
  The same technique was used in Pale
  Sun Lifting Mist (below), which shows
  silhouetted trees against a misty lake,
  where almost invisible edges to the far
  banks were created, with darker paint
  added below the structures and washed

down with clean water. Here I also used

the technique of lifting dry paint from

the picture surface using a damp chisel

brush and tissue to create soft edges.

Once the painted surface was dry I

used a damp chisel brush to draw the

suggestion of concentric circles on the

surface of the water around the coot in

t From the Eye, watercolour, 41 3 54½in

(104 3 138cm)

p Pale Sun Lifting Mist, watercolour, 34 3 46¾in (86 3 119cm)

the bottom right-hand corner, stamping

away the damp paint with a tissue to

create the illusion of movement. By

using a strong contrast between the

totally soft-edged background and the

hard-edged silhouetted foreground tree

and branches, which were painted wet-

on-dry, I created the illusion of depth