The Old Barn

Certainly has light - I find one of the things that can dull a painting is that we tend to put too much colour into the sky at the horizon, eg deep blues where blue wouldn't (generally) be deep at all; and this dictates the rest of the colour scheme, and tends to darken it. Doesn't apply to this painting, where you've offset a quite strong blue with the variegated reds of the barn roof and bright foreground washes, but maybe that's one reason why you've found your watercolours have been a bit dull?

Lovely washes in this Roy, and love the barn and vegetation that is a good brighter colour and contrasts well with the foreground colour

And a really good attempt too - great use of colour Roy

I wish I could get light into my paintings like this Roy, great washes.

It was the light and warmth that drew me to this. Lovely use of colour too.

Lovely watercolour Roy

A lovely feeling of sunlight and warm summer days, Roy.