Quiet Morning at the Salute, Venice ( Watercolour on Khadi paper approx 11" x 15")

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Lovely work after all that correction! Does not appear that way here!!! Love it! One day i will get to see it...

Posted by Thalia Stones on Tue 10 Jul 13:40:08

Lovely watercolour,Bob.

Posted by Seth Dalton on Tue 10 Jul 13:42:00

Clean, crisp atmosphere, not your usual view of this subject, and all the better for it.

Posted by Tony Auffret on Tue 10 Jul 14:28:28

Love the sunlight and shade and a great composition.

Posted by Fred Elwell on Tue 10 Jul 15:13:09

Thanks for your comments Talia, Seth, Tony and Fred...Perhaps one day I'll get to see the real thing too.

Posted by Bob Biggart on Tue 10 Jul 19:40:29

A beautiful result, Bob! A great job on perspective and architectural details.

Posted by Chandra Ward on Tue 10 Jul 20:36:25

Thanks Chandra, I didn't want to be too detailed, but I like to see detail hinted at. The whole painting took quite a few days to complete as it was fairly large for me...it was actually 11" x 16" when I re-measured it today. The final part were the lines in the paving...done with a mixture of Daniel Smith Buff Titanium watercolour, and Titanium White Gouache...they helped with reinforcing the perspective, and again many of the lines were left out so as not to be too tight.

Posted by Bob Biggart on Tue 10 Jul 21:22:08

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10/07/2018

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Inspired by an article and photo by Judi Whitton in an article in the Artist magazine, I wanted to paint the Santa Maria Della Salute in Venice with the light on the building at the same angle as in Judi's article, but with a bigger view. None of the photos I saw on line seemed to suit what I had in mind, so I went onto Google Street View and found that they had done views of venice with one of their cameras attached to the backpack of a hardy soul who walked round Venice. I found a view near the Salute, but the perspective was very distorted, so I did a drawing trying to correct that problem. Then it was on to the watercolour, done on Khadi heavyweight paper.

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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 the…

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