Watercolours With Life: It Made Me Smile!

Friday, 9 August 2013

It Made Me Smile!

Bailey, my Bearded Collie, at the farm yesterday

Cooling down in a duck pool.

I wasn't the only one to enjoy my visit to the farm yesterday. Bailey, my Bearded Collie, came too and thoroughly enjoyed meeting all the animals there. He had been watching geese and ducks swim in a pool that had been left out for them. When he got nearer he promptly stepped in to it . He sat down at first, then he lay down to cool off. I am not quite sure how many people took his photograph or stopped to laugh at him but it was hilarious seeing the happy expression on his face.

This isn't a posting on painting or art, but the moment made me smile so much that I just had to share it. I don't think this will be a new subject for me to create in watercolour but each time I think about him I smile!

I hope you do too.

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I am currently planning my 2014 "Animals in Watercolour" workshops for next year and I can honestly say they are going to be memorable!

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The Artist Magazine : Book Review

Jean Haines' Atmospheric Watercolours

"The book is nothing less than a paean to the wet in wet technique. If that's your thing, prepare to be amazed. Jean Haines credits Jean Louis Morelle, and in many ways this book is the sequel to Morelle's remarkable, but very technical work, showing the wealth of creative possibilities the technique offers. A lot of the images are barely recognisable and yet you instinctively know what they are. I wish I knew how, because this is impressionism taken to its logical conclusion and reminiscent of some of the later work by JMW Turner. You will have to take it from me that "First signs of a face appearing magically from a first wash of watercolour" is pure alchemy. This is an extraordinary book."

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"Amazing Ways With Watercolour" from Town House Films is the fastest selling DVD with the company to date! Record breaking pre-orders for this much awaited film saw requests for copies flooding in from all over the world. A wonderful introduction into working with watercolour minus the use of a preliminary sketch this DVD removes the fear, stress or pressure from worry about how to use watercolour. Instead the focus is on having fun, enjoying vibrant colour combinations and allowing the medium to create the subjects with just a little help from the artist. A really exciting new DVD to own. Whilst the DVD sold out in the first few months since its' release due to popularity it is now in stock and available directly from Town House Films.

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