Today, in our penultimate ‘Own Projects’ session, we had great fun exploring different effects with watercolour, using wet-into-wet, dragging a dry brush through wet paint, letting colours ‘bleed’ into one another, and imprinting, as well as experimenting with perspective.
We also played around with abstracted mark-making and composition.
Some people looked at colour mixing, and colour opposites, and very successfully created their own mixed colours, as well as exploring picture construction with the ‘rule of thirds’, and the ‘horizon line’, and differing ways of indicating light and shadow.
We had some beautiful clematis flowers in the studio and some equally beautiful pastel drawings in a bright and joyful cerise pink on light green paper.
And finishing up with a mixed media acrylic based painting with posca pen, where experimentation took place using using various textured mediums, masking fluids, along with erasing and building back up techniques, and glazing.
A really wonderful way to spend an afternoon, thank you everyone!
