Watercolour workshop with Andrew Pitt

Thirteen of us attended Andrew Pitt’s all day workshop at the Bowls Club today, and by the end of the day we all felt that we had had a full work-out.
Andrew started with a demonstration of a harbour landscape working from a detailed sketch.

The initial sketch.                               Adding the sky half —way.                The finished picture

He used quite a limited palette of Windsor and Newton paints, four versions of each of the three primaries, with some extra additions

Andrew has a wealth of knowledge to draw on, so I have included some of these little nuggets here.

• You need to get three things right, the drawing, to make sure that your subject will fit onto the paper. 
  The tone, don’t leave out the white and the black working in mid-tones makes a dull painting .working from white to darkest dark, and three  shades in between . 
• Strike a balance between abstraction and photo-realism.
• Paint everything once before you go back to make adjustments 
• Restrict yourself to mixing two colours, certainly no more than three.
• ​clouds get warmer and smaller towards the horizon.
  

With our heads full of this wisdom we started work, while we ate our lunch Andrew demonstrated a seasonal portrait

Working…

And here are the final results…

Ian. J.                                                           Ian C.                                            Jackie

​me.                                                              Jill.                                                     Josie

​Judith.                                                     Maggie Ann.                                        Lesley

​Harriet.                                                       Barry.                                               Avril

Avril

Carolyn has sent a lovely seasonal picture of the Beech leaves bringing autumn glory to her garden.

And a final quote from Andrew
​”It’s not what you paint, but how you painted it”

(If you cannot see a full view of any of the pictures,  tap/ click to expand)

that should keep you going until next week …

• A reminder of the Chairman’s project - “On Reflection”
• Next week’s still life and model session will be led by Bea Murrie.
• Next week’s blogger in chief is Hannah.

phew!

Sally