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29th May 2020

 

This will just be short, as there is no easyart session on zoom this Friday, but normal service will be resumed on Fri 12th- hopefully a mix of live art in a garden, socially distanced etc, & the usual zoom for the time being.

Meanwhile we all gathered again last Fri for an attempt at une maison Provençale avec pré de lavande, so a slightly different colour scheme & method for painting lavenders, using a spiky brush. As ever, the group are all quickly absorbed, & because I send the picture & the colours/brushes in advance, it is quite easy to get started as with the sky & mountains, greenery etc. Again there are simple sweeps of colour which everyone does in a different way, & by now they are used to creating a simple Provençal house with the worn stone & russet roof, with a vague shadowy gray for the doors, windows & shadows along the wall. I said it was going to be easy art!

However, the lavender side of things is a bit more specific when you get to the foreground, & this is where the spiky brush comes in with specific dabs to represent the flower heads, swift upward streaks of greeny grey for the stalks – a bit of scattered stones for the base & you’re done!

I have just received an order from the U.K. of a book & dvd called Watercolour Unleashed which will show how to use some fresh techniques- so watch this space…….

Meanwhile am posting a link for a utube video on how to paint abstract poppies – so watch this space….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIcVPjZQyiM