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| Light Out to Sea from Sewerby Cliffs |
Working with a very limited palette is a very useful
teaching aid as you have to concentrate on getting the tones right to create
the illusion of space and depth in your painting. This was one of the
techniques I demonstrated recently at a workshop at Driffield Art Club. I have
been several times and always enjoy it. They are a great bunch and very
competent painters too so I have to be on my mettle. I used two colours for the
demonstration – French ultramarine and brown madder – and completed it in about
twenty minutes. That’s the joy of watercolour as it does most of the work for
you. I masked the sea line and then worked wet in wet down to the foreground
using different mixes of the same colours. When it was dry all I had to do was
remove the mask and quickly work in the foreground and a nice little painting
appeared – the magic of watercolour!
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