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<\/a>\u00a0 Using a darker tone of the cottage pink (Alizarin) and the browny orange of the other building , I indicated the windows, and introduced an idea of the Cheshire sandstone blocks in the wall at the front.\u00a0 A bit of “Calligraphy” drew in the eaves, the lamp post and\u00a0 the door, while the garden was splashed in using Viridian and Burnt Sienna in the tree and Viridian and Aureolin for the planting.\u00a0 This is turning into a watercolour as opposed to a painting in watercolour!<\/p>\nNow for the black and white drawing.\u00a0 I am thrilled to inform you that I did this freehand in the black watercolour pencil without any preliminary work <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been busy this week!\u00a0 The demonstration watercolour is coming along at my Wednesday class, and I’ve been experimenting with the black and white watercolour pencils. First the painting – the initial washes were well dry as it was a week since I worked on this painting.\u00a0 This method of working strings out the painting … Continue reading “Two for the price of one!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>in ordinary pencil first.\u00a0 It’s another view of Farndon (I can see another project coming on!) looking across the little lane which figured in my recent oil.\u00a0 Early days, of course,\u00a0 and I don’t know how this paper will be when I introduce water, but I am revelling\u00a0 in my new found freedom with pencils.\u00a0 I’ve started to use some white but think that most white will be in the garden.\u00a0 What about a cloud?\u00a0 I like the texture on the left hand roof, and am adventuring with the dark tree in the foreground.<\/p>\n