Thursday, May 22, 2014

Pond sketches

Pond sketches
Watercolour and pen

In a quieter moment in between either painting with oils or cleaning oil paint off brushes and palette, I worked on these preparatory sketches in watercolours and marker pens. I have a lovely huge and chunky watercolour paper sketchbook (two inches thick) which you can see here. 
These sketches are thoughts about possible large oil paintings of the pond at Lincolnshire's Gunby Hall.   My idea is to start a large painting in the studio with an underpainting, then take it out on site for the main painting session, then work on it again in the studio etc. Not sure when this will actually take place as I've got so much else on the go at the moment, but it's always good to have ideas stacking up!


Masking fluid in action on the lily pads

4 comments:

  1. Have just ordered your new book...can't wait for it to arrive !

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    1. Ooh Jill, I hope you love it! I've just received my copy today and I'm really happy with it! :-)

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  2. Hi Haedi ...when I ordered your new book...the email confirmation didn't cone through ....wondering why not ?!?

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    1. I don't know Jill, perhaps check in case it went in your spam folder? I can see that somebody has ordered the book in the last couple of hours (I'm sure that's you) but they don't show me any details, name or anything else.

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