Atmospheric Watercolour Workshops: Boat

Boat demonstration from one of this years workshops.

Five minute Study

On my watercolour workshop sessions I take time  to work individually with each attending artist so that we can look at  their favourite subjects and ways on how to approach painting them. I paint every single subject so this part of the session can lead absolutely anywhere!

In one of my recent session a wonderful artist had brought in a photograph of a boat they wished to paint. The photograph had very little information and yet held a lot of magic as a possible subject for a painting.

I never see things as they are or paint things excatly as I see them. Instead I look for more interesting ways to use colour to bring a scene to life. In my new book "Atmospheric Watercolours" I explain why I do this and how life as an artist is far more fun this way.

I always feel alive and exhilarated from my painting sessions and aim to  make sure everyone I know who paints gets this much pleasure from moving their brushes.

I have shared this image so that the artist can see how I moved on with other ideas. I love Cadmium Yellow, added here for sunlight although there was none in the original scene. And if you were on my workshop you will see how I have made a few nore changes in the background and foreground. I prefer this "feel" as it is more atmospheric than the real scene.

I hope you like it!

The same scene before I built up the atsmosphere and added warmth.

Five minute study

Stage 1.