Wet Square

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Beautiful watercolour, Brian, great rainy atmosphere.

Beautifully painted. Know what you mean about loosing impact- so easy to do. You have achieved plenty of it here.

Wonderful

Beautifully painted Brian. Wet weather is really good for city scenes.

Excellent work!

I love the opportunities afforded by rainy urban scenes. They are something of a gift in watercolour terms, with symptoms which are striking and, if I'm honest, simple to achieve. Just make sure the perspective is correct, this is obviously a single point; don't try to describe everything but instead find a representational "shorthand" for the architecture and the figures; be bold, don't water down the concept by reducing contrast (i.e. don't add pigment to the lights and water to the darks, it will lack impact) and finish with rich impasto lights and darks, to represent minor figures, street furniture, pavement joints, highlights and so on - what Joseph Zbukvic describes as his jewellery. They give scale, structure and identifiable meaning.