Watercolours inspired by Edwardian photographs

Edwardian lady with dog, painted by Carol. We all admired the painting in general and especially the beautiful, loving contact between woman and dog

Last Tuesday we used Edwardian photographs as inspiration. A complicated and pretty difficult subject, but it has so many possibilities - they have quite a special atmosphere, they are monochrome, the light and darks are interesting. And the animals that were also in the picture add a funny element. All kinds of inspiration, also for those who do not like the above. No one says you have to paint it monochrome, or 'precise'! Well, as you can see below, it was actually quite a success! Most paintings are finished and look absolutely wonderful and very different as always!

 

This Edwardian Lady by Jutta has class and a beautiful sadness. And she has not started with the shadows, which will make it more 'Edwardian'.

Sandra skipped the monochrome and created a Medusa-like lady with a cute kitten (who in my view really tries to escape, but they make it work)

This picture-perfect is painted by Liz, using an Edwardian photo, but she changed the smile - into a friendlier and wiser, almost Mona Lisa look.

Michele painted a lady with a dog, in a simple style with different tones, almost monochrome but not quite. It makes it just a little bit more interesting!

Helene didn't feel like painting Edwardian Ladies, so she painted an Edwardian Cat. A cat who doesn't really feel like posing today 😛

Sylvie D. started with a variation on the theme, with an Edwardian Man with a Piglet. Looking forward to seeing it in a further stage!

And last but not least, Sue's sketch that she started on the previous Thursday when she had some time left. It is done quick and spontaneous - I love it!

And of course there were also other paintings created!

Celina started a fantastic and experimental painting of an hourglass on the wall. The glass itself is not yet finished, but look at that background... fantastic.

Helene had time left after her grumpy Edwardian cat and quickly painted this wet-in-wet landscape. Love these spontaneous paintings - and well done with the reflection & the white...

Judith really got the colours to perfection, with Payne's Grey and Burnt Sienna, what a great combi. And the paintings are interesting too, this is definitely leading up to something interesting!

Randi had her second watercolour session and used it to experiment with colours. She is picking it all up so quickly and I see very cool results in my crystal ball

Glen did 'the thing' again: she worked for at least 2 hours on a snow landscape, which by the way is very well done - and then did the same painting (ok admitted, smaller size) in 10 minutes, which is almost as good! Just to show how much you can learn from carefully and intensely creating one painting.

 

An abstracted tree painted by Sandra. It worked for us as a symbol for the Australian fires. FYI: she used white ink on the trunk.

Randi's spheres now finished. See what I mean? She's good!