Royal Crescent Finished

Hurray! I finally finished my 6ft long painting of the Royal Crescent in Bath. Below you can see a stitched photograph which will have to do for now until I scan it properly.

Now let me get some sleep.

Royal Crescent Progress Pt.4

I'm still going but I think I'm on the bend just before the final straight. There's not much more I can say apart from I'll keep you posted.

Royal Crescent Progress Pt.2

 
I'm still painting it! The sky packs more punch and the Royal Crescent houses are starting to emerge from the shadows.

Royal Crescent Progress

 
I have recently started a mammoth watercolour painting of the Royal Crescent, Bath. It is so big my stretcher board is a 6ft door. Every once in a while I shall post photos so you can see the gradual progression of my painting.  

Finished Illustration For A Children's Book...

To follow up my previous post (click here), I can now show you the finished illustration.

I ending up working with ultramarine watercolour as an under-painting which can work fantastically well when you glaze colours on top, especially if you want a cool 'night time' atmosphere. So lots of thin glazes later I was finally able to build up the darker colours in the tree and the grass. I've found by building up the same colour wet-in-wet in clumps I can give a convincing impression of grass tufts.

For the finishing touches I used gouache, particularly on the fur highlights and the odd blade of grass.

'Lansdown Road' Watercolour Finished

Despite the very long intervals in-between painting 'Lansdown Road' I finally completed it a few weeks ago. I'm sorry I haven't posted the finished piece earlier, for some reason I thought I already had! 

All in all I'm quite pleased with the final results although maybe I could have pushed the contrasts a bit even though it is supposed to be a hazy spring morning.

(Detail: can you see the seagulls? They really were there!!)

Painting In Bath

In case you happen to be in Bath this Saturday please drop by the 'Best Of The Bath Prize' gallery on Stall Street just opposite the Roman Baths, and say hello. I shall be working on my Lansdown Road watercolour (below) in the gallery and answering any questions from 11am to 4.30pm.

Map for the a children's book...

In June I posted a map I was working on for a children's book, to view click here. Now I can reveal the colour version below. I shall add a map key with numbers, compass and probably a frame at a later date so that kids can pore the map working out where all the action is taking place and generally looking for mistakes, just like I used to do!

The illustration was completed in exclusively watercolour, size 30x24cm.