More Paintings

Here are some of my earliest watercolours that were from 'my head' and not practice books. At this stage I hadn't sampled the delights of quality paper but it still did the job for me and quite often I keep some cheap paper to doodle on.  I still find now and again that if a painting goes wrong I do worry  but it's only paper and paint and I have ripped up many paintings that I disliked.  After visiting an art gallery once and noticed the price of some paintings that looked similar to mine I try not to throw anything away, you never know when a masterpiece might turn out, lol!

So here's a couple of landscape watercolours from maybe 6/7 years ago. The boat is facing the wrong way so as it is now your eye goes out of the picture.

The next few are within the last 3/4 years,  

Both snow scenes are in Acrylics, the seal painting was cut down from a larger one as I liked the simplicity of it. The Cottage is in Watercolour. That is a particular favourite of mine.  Hopefully I shall try to add more over the next few days but if there's any questions, then I will try to answer them.

Well as promised I am going to put as many as I can of my various paintings, some done in Watercolour and some in Acrylics, there's the pencil work and watercolour pencils as well.  Sometimes a little doodle can create an idea for a painting, then there's the photographs as a guide if I see a nice view but find it difficult to set up my art gear there and then.

Painting 'plein air' is enjoyable and yet it can feel stressful if you don't like people looking over your shoulder but I don't bother about that, we all see things differently and paint accordingly.

I began painting some years ago while we had the newsagents, a fortnightly magazine started out teaching you how to paint and it also came with equipment, paints and brushes.  The brushes I no longer have but the paints and container are still a reminder for me of how it all began.  I look at my first ever painting and smile, my hubby had it framed for one of my birthdays!  About halfway through the course I disliked the way the teaching was going so I stopped buying the magazine and began purchasing books that appealed to me. Perspective, depth and distance were and still are at times a struggle but a challenge  that I take on from time to time.

So here we go with some of them.