A Bright Day in the Archipelago (Watercolour on Arches 140lb rough, approx 6.5"x 14" )

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Good watercolour Bob, like it a lot

This is really super Bob. It is an accomplished landscape watercolour. Thanks for giving us the colours you used as I think the colour palette is great. You say you used 4 different blues on it? I love it, well done.

I really like this Bob - you have conveyed the different textures of the distant trees and the rocks nearby perfectly with your control of soft and hard edges, especially the wet in wet of the trees

Thanks Heather, David and Colin. the blues were Cobalt (W&N), French Ultramarine (Daler Rowney), the Schminke Cerulean Blue Hue (PW4, PB15:3) and a favourite of Richard Thorn, King's Blue Light (Old Holland)...and I forgot to mention Permanent Rose (W&N). I often use the W&N Cerulean in my paintings, but not this time..the Schminke Hue is a totally different pigment and colour, but useful in its own right as a Phthalo blue option.

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20/09/2021
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I'm a great admirer of Stanislaw Zoladz, an outstanding watercolour artist...I found this view of one of the wooded islands in the Stockholm Archipelago on the internet, and thought I'd give it a go with watercolour. I used only a limited palette of W&N Lemon Yellow, Yellow ochre, Quinacridone gold, Warm sepia, 4 blues, Hookers Green, Neutral Tint and Paynes grey.

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Bob Biggart

I'm an amateur artist who started to paint in watercolours about 1990, when I found that the watercolours I admired in galleries were way beyond my price range. My thinking was that in time I might be able to produce paintings that I could hang on my wall at home, and be happy with. At theā€¦

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