Under Water - in watercolours!

It is summer season, more and more Aquarellistas are on holiday or otherwise occupied. For instance, Yours truly was in Amsterdam last week, so no Thursday group in Atelier M - but luckily there were a couple of die-hards in the Hangar who worked very very well on the subject 'Under Water'

Anne painted this amazing under-water landscape. Such a brilliant painting, Everybody loved it.

WIP from Bev, gorgeous turtle, especially if you know that she painted it in one hour as she had to leave early. Details next week!

Gorgeous turtle by Charlie. It has so much character, it is struggling to get to the next stage. Or so. Anyway, well done!

And from Bretagne came this other version of the turtle, monochrome in a beautiful green turqoise , an amazing interpretation by Michele. So wonderful that she shows her true interest and appreciation, by painting - and still growing in her skill!


Small group, so yours truly had time for a wet-in-wet experiment. This is copied from a photo and here's how I did it:

I started with painting the paper blue. In our weather it dries in 2 minutes. Then i added the tiny air bubbles in masking fluid. After that dried I added water where the colour stayed light or red or yellow and then added plenty of pretty dark blue. Then while it was still wet I added the red and the yellow in his little face and then had to re-wet it to add the hair. Then some details with wet paint on the dry surface and a pizce of kitchen paper to make everything a bit 'unsharp'. When I removed the masking, the air bubbles seemed so white (although they were blue) so I added a bit of blue to them... It didn't take much time from start to finish and I love the result...


Charlie tweaked her Maria Magdalena a bit more and she will finish it next week with a surprising twist. Maybe. 😀

Laura missed out on the posters subject so she started that today and this is WIP but already so spot on! It is her village Opio, with the church and the Town hall and it will have text and - o well you'll see next week!