Ancient Glow

Another super watercolour!

I am a novice and prone to making silly comments, but here goes!....I wish I could see the reference material for your paintings and know what was going through your mind as you paint......to get an idea of how you interpret what you see. I understand the looseness, the colours and the obvious highlights (given the time of day etc) left as white paper.....but your last three paintings all have white paper left as highlights in areas that are not obvious to me. They add interest and intrigue me and I'd love to know if they are random, conscious artistic license or a striaght copy of what you see.

You've done it again. Magic!

Thank you for your kind comments! Hi Paul the way i approach the painting is to imagine the areas of light and not actualy look at where the light falls and have the white light central to the area of main interest,have smaller pockets of light around that area, anywhere will work i find. So to answer i dont follow the reference to closely and force areas to be light then work the colour around these areas .... hope that helps a little thanks Andrew

Super watercolour. Great paint handling and technique. I am also a great fan of white paper and in fact I usually preserve it with my life! I have a horror of covering all the paper with paint as I find that paintings can't breath when this has been done. The white paper allows the image to be relaxed and sparkle. I think you adhere to this ethos as well, which is why I find this painting so attractive. Great work.

The painting really does glow - a lovely painting

Thanks for taking the time to reply Andrew. Appreciate it

Simply stunning light, and lovely technique. Congratulations for 3 paintings in the Top Ten, they are all beautiful.

Just seen your gallery Andrew. Watercolour at its best!