Canalside oak colour trial 2

CT canalside oak green red
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Another good use of colour!

So nice to see the same scene treated differently, excellent work.

Thank you both, you're very kind. The beauty of the colour trials technique is that I could run off 2 more prints of the ink sketch and paint a sunset and a snow scene, until I find a treatment that makes me want to paint a larger, more resolved, watercolour.

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28/04/2020
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My second colour trial on a printed copy of my ink sketch, trying complementaries of green and red.

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and now, since early retirement, painting it in watercolour. I prefer to paint in the field and have experienced all the difficulties the British weather can present to a painter, from the sun drying the paint on the…

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