watercolour

WHY WATERCOLOUR?

Perhaps because as a child I would sit and watch granddad paint using his hard pan watercolours, I still have the tin paint pack. So, I've always painted in watercolour, more than any other medium.

I'm a bit impatient, I like generous hue splashed across watercolour paper and strong lines in Indigo stroked in quickly capturing contours. Spectacular success or spectacular failure, the artist warrior apparently.

I have in the past worked in a more considered approach, but the dangerous one is much more appealing to me. Don't worry... I don’t get hurt, I'm not that brave, I just muck up an awful lot of paper. Oh well, more collage material at hand.

I use a wide variety of colours so that I have many voices for mood, I go through periods of using a set of hues then abandon them for a new feel, but Prussian Green, Indigo, Mars Violet, are often my mood colours. Shadow Violet and Cobalt Green and Blue. I seem to be at home in the cool zone, though Gamboge, Rose Madder Genuine, Cadmium Red Light, make appearances.

Then all of a sudden, I will fall in love with another hue, ooh like lunar blue, as in Birch reflections and blue channel, I love it!