Occasional thoughts and comments on watercolour painting and sketching. You can sign in to this page so your comments will have a username, or just comment as 'Guest'. Names do help discussions though... :o)
My personal answer, but from conversations I suspect it’s a question that quickly goes away once you’ve taken the plunge and started painting or sketching regularly. 'Inspiration' is an odd concept and possibly even a myth when it comes to painting. You can just go ahead and paint and the more you do it the better you get at it. I'm most often inspired by the look of the colours in my paintbox. The corner of our garden where the compost bins live. 16x12" If you paint often e
I'm smitten by watercolour to a degree that surprises and delights me every time I paint, so I'm trying to put that into words here. :o- Firstly, real watercolour is so different from any brush (ha!) that I'd had with it at secondary school. I don't think I'd even so much as looked at a watercolour painting through my adult life until I'd turned 60. Well, 61 really. Sure, some of the famous paintings we'd all recognise might be watercolours, but I hadn't paid any attention to
