Category Archives: Extra wide watercolours

Experimenting with watercolour abstract painting

Hi Everybody

I have been experimenting with some watercolours that have some abstract ideas in then and I have really been enjoying the challenge.

Whilst trying to preserve lanscape and seascape ideas these paintings have a bit of abstraction about them and I hopw you will like them

They are fun to produce and they can also be upscaled as Giclée prints to create large centrepiece paintings up to 1 metre wide  and this is an exciting prospect too.

Hre are some recent ones for you to see and any of your thoughts would be appreciated.

I hope you will enjoy these

Happy Travelling 

Brian

Norfolk Fens. Watercolour 90 by 20 cms

 

The Island. Watercolour 46 by 24 cms

 

The Lighthouse. Watercolour 90 cms by 20.

Norfolk River scene. Watercolour 85 by 22 cms

Venice Lagoon Sunset, watercolour46 by 35cms

The Mourne Mountains. Watercolour 46 by 24

Larger and more impressionistic!

Hi Everybody

I have alway been interested in painting larger watercolours but only now have I really got round to giving it a go.

After the recently posted Salisbury Cathedral watercolour, shown again here,  I have been painting a few larger more impressionistic watercolours either at 78 cms width or 95 cms width.

Salisbury Cathedral 75 by 25 cms on Arches 300 gsm paper

Here are the two new wide paintings , the first one on Saunders 600gsm paper which is very heavy and takes lots of water very well.

A Wide watercolour,78 by 20cms on 600gsm warecolour paper

The second was painted on heavy wallpaper lining paper and although I was sceptical if it would take watercolour at all it has turned out fine and the paint dried nicely on this fairly smooth paper.

Even wider 95 by 20 cms on Commercial lining paper about 200 gms.

This paper is many times lower in cost than watercolour rolls of paper and so I will try it again.

Both are as you see semi abstract Fen like scenes and I have been pleased with the interest shown in this style which is for me a bit of a departure from the norm!

This week i hope to be away painting the Bluebell woods in Sussex and this may also give me an opportunity for a really wide watercolour too. If so I will post it here soon

Any comments gratefully received!

Happy Travelling

Brian

 

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