by Bev Dunstan
Saturday 11th January saw Jake Winkle return to Chandlers Ford Art Group with a workshop ‘Light and Movement in Watercolour’.
Jake provided a dynamic ‘seat of your pants’ experience of working wet-in-wet in watercolour.
Using a big mop brush the members were shown a step by step guide in how to use a simple palette of colours to produce a quayside scene in deep shade and bright sunshine. As the workshop was about using watercolour and less about drawing, the members were encouraged to trace the image onto the paper, thereby leaving more time to apply the paint. Once the sketch was complete then Jake demonstrated how to mix and apply layers of watercolour to build up the painting; beginning with simple washes and finishing with darker pigments to define the sun kissed areas on the roofs and water.
In the second half of the workshop, Jake illustrated the technique of ‘lost and found’ in a painting.
The drawing was again traced into the paper to maximise the time to apply the paint. The technique was to paint just the darker tones, working from top to bottom and wet-in-wet.
This produced an image showing how, by just painting the shadows on the people and donkeys and not completing the whole outline, the human eye can capture the full intensity of bright sunlight as it falls on subject in hand.
Our results!
