They were great fun to do and again just trying to loosen my painting.  I tend to want to paint the entire image.  Materials used were watercolours, pen, and Inktense pencils.

I have been checking out the Artist Demo Days on facebook and love the demos and chit chat about painting.   This is one of Ali Boards demos of a puffin I did yesterday in order to  get a looser approach to painting.  It isn’t quite right but I am getting there.

I have been having a go at a tutorial in Paint magazine by Sue Williams of a pen and wash scene.  The camera hasn’t picked up the colour all that well, but having said that I could have added a bit more colour in the grassy areas.  I am not sure whether I should keep going with it and add more colour to the foreground or just leave it be?  I think I will leave it for now and I can always go back to it if I want to later.

This watercolour is another tutorial from Terry Harrison.  I didn’t do very well with the wet-in-wet especially on the barn but I enjoyed painting it.  In fact I made quite a few mistakes but hey ho.

Here is my latest painting from Terry Harrison’s tutorials.  This one is of a 1952 Dodge that he spotted on his travels.  In real life (his photo) it doesn’t look as rusty as this but he shoes how to get a rusty looking effect.

This is another Terry Harrison tutorial but I managed to make a rather strange shaped house on this one.  I had sketched it out first and somehow thought the line I had sketched in for the tree was the line for the back of the house.  I was going to try and lift the colour out but ended up just leaving it as it is.

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This is from one of Terry Harrison’s tutorials.  There are a few wonky bits on it but hey ho.

A watercolour painting from a Terry Harrison tutorial.  I didn’t quite get the colour right in the sky at the left hand side so I tried to make it into a bank of trees across from the harbour.

I like paintings with little boats in them and I am trying to practice sky and sea painting with varying success.  This one is from a Terry Harrison tutorial.

I have been learning to paint by reading books and doing a few tutorial and this painting is from one of Terry Harrison’s online tutorials. They are good tutorials for beginners as he shows how he mixes his colours and takes you through each step so you can learn different techniques.  It still takes practice though to get the techniques right.