A color study for painting Cascais
A color study for painting Cascais Relate to: Sketch and tonal study, and Painting Based on my previous experiences with painting directly from a sketch and by looking at the inspirational photo, I took my time to play with mixing watercolour on a small-sized color study (8×6 in) to select the pigment for the larger […]
Tuscan hamlet at dawn
Tuscan hamlet at dawn In the surroundings of Monsummano Terme, walking uphill last Summer, we came across a beautiful landscape of a small hamlet backed by two large cypress trees. I love to draw. So my preliminary drawing of the landscape was rather detailed on properly scaled paper, with tonal values as I saw fit. […]
Painting a patio in Azay-le-Rideau
Painting a patio in Azay-le-Rideau I used the sketch/drawing from last week as a baseline for my new painting. I wanted to test a new method for stretching the watercolour paper using metal clips to hold its fibres extended, as shown in the picture below taken after the first wash. The result was not that […]
Tuscan hamlet on the hill
Last summer, while visiting the village of Vinci, we drove up and down the hills on narrow roads like the one seen in the drawing below. I still remember the excitement of seeing the birthplace and the surroundings where Leonardo da Vinci grew up. I used the sketch above as inspiration for a new painting/experiment. […]
Country-side mansion in Upper Canada
During a past holiday, I visited the countryside region near Kingston, Ontario, along the Great Lakes. The city was an important center during the British Dominion in the Victorian era, hosting a colonial force, the Governor of the province and most of its bureaucracy. As expected, one can still find many examples of construction in […]