The prompt 'Landscape' in the Sketch a Day app was not as easy as it seems because... which landscape will I paint and how will I show it?
I decided on a view of which I had made a reference picture and used that reference for a charcoal drawing. A watercolour painting would be the first painting from that picture.
Because the picture was made just before or just after sunset, the colours were not so very bright. Painting the colours as they are in the reference would mean a lot of 'almost black' with shades of brown and a hint of green. That is not easy to paint, these shades are too full of pigment to give a nice result. In the reference the bushes and trees in the foreground can still be distinguished, the painting that foreground would become a dark blur.
So for this painting I did bring back the 'daylight colours' a bit, but a bit muted because of the fading light.
The small town of mostly white buildings on the riverside can still be seen and that is what I hoped to achieve.
The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this work and - if you are interested in my original artworks - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.
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