Artists & Illustrators - UK (2019-10)

YOUR QUESTIONS

LEFTDeborah

Walker,Evening

BELOWDouglas

Gray,QE2,NewYork

PAGE72,FROMTOP

FredBeckett,

TheWherry‘Albion’

CrossingBreydon

Water; Peter

Wileman,Dawn,

Penryn,Cornwall;

BenMowll,Venice,

Contrejour.

Allpaintings

featureinthe

RSMAAnnual

Exhibition 2019

saidtohavedone,butyougetthe

generalidea.Trytounderstandthe

forcesatworkandinformyourself.

Considerthetideandwindandtryto

getthatfeelingintoyourwork.

I’veseena classicboatonlandthatI

wanttopaintit if atsea.Anyadvice

fortransposingit realistically?

BM:Personally,I wouldleavethatto

therealexpertsinthefield,suchas

GeoffHuntorMarkMyers,bothpast

presidentsoftheRSMA.Theirhistoric

marineworkis superb,anda massive

amountofresearchgoesonahead

beforetheexecutionofthepiece.

DW:If theaimis tocreatea convincing

painting,myadvicewouldbedon’t

doit.There’snorealwayofcapturing

howit risesandfallswithoutseeingit

inthewater.I wouldtryandseeit as

it is:tryandgettheboatinthewater,

orseeanotherlikeit somewhere.

Arecertainbrushesusefulfor

specificaspectsofmarinepainting?

DW:I’msurecertainbrushesare

moreusefulfordetail,likeriggersfor

linearwork,butI usea bamboodip

penasopposedtoa brush.I makemy

ownbamboopenswitha wellinthem

thatwillholdthepaintandapplythe

finestdetailswitha metalnib.

Whattipsdoyousuggestforpainting

reflectionsonwaterconvincingly?

DW:It’sallaboutstudyingthecolour

Hard horizon lines let paintings down.

There is always vapour which will

diffuse the distance to some degree