RESOURCE – 5 tips for a great watercolour from Surinder Beerh
Sketching I am a great believer in sketching. Without a proper drawing /sketch it is difficult to produce a good painting. If you do not get the drawing right in the initial stage then it will be difficult to make changes whilst you are painting….
5 tips for great watercolours with Annie Rice
Know your paints Which colours are transparent and which ones opaque? A transparent is clear, beautiful, and will bleed into other colours for wet in wet. Opaques are solid but are useful for detail, overlaying other colours and making a bold statement. An opaque mixed…
Carol Whitehouse on a painting journey
When I was asked if I would like to write a piece, I was about to start working on a painting of purple tulips. I began to think of how I go about producing my art. I liken this to a journey –setting off, the…
Newport Walks by Tony White
Past SEAW President, Tony White takes us through and unexpected benefit of lock-down. I have always painted and drawn. For some reason painting has taken a back seat for the last year or so, whilst I have been occupied with some print-making projects. Maybe painting…
EXPLORE – Urban sketching
During lockdown, the urbansketchers movement conducted a series of instagram interviews with some of its most well known members around the world. The result was a series of chats and challenges set by interviewees, that kept urbansketchers busy during lockdown, kept them connected and interpreted …
A sideways look at the magic of watercolour
Thoughts of a striving painter by Alan Noyes Whatever jottings and ramblings I put down here can either be attributed to ideas and advice I have gleaned over time from numerous books in my studio, (How to Paint like Turner by Tate Publishing in particular),…