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The dictionary defines watercolour as 1. a paint of which the liquid is a water dispersion of the binding material (such as glue, casein, or gum) 2. the art or method of painting with watercolors.
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Ribbon Creek
squwetchy I sat atop a waterfall and painted this plein air #watercolour with water from the creek.
Monday the 12th of August, 2024, posted at bedtime.
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Ribbon Falls
squwetchy A plein air #watercolour painted atop a mountain. #waterfall

Now that I’m back home and actually have decent paints… a proper brush … few mosquitoes buzzing in my face.. and less rush, I want to try this screen again.
Monday the 12th of August, 2024, posted at bedtime.
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Watercolour Class 7
squwetchy For our penultimate #watercolour #flower class we did this little red rose. Given that a) this week is our last class and b) I usually only do my homework to show off in the next class, this might have been my last at home assignment painting for a while. That said, I’ve been snapping pics of flowers for a couple weeks now and I bought a pass to the local botanic garden so hopefully it will be a summer of painting plein aire in the park.
Sunday the 9th of June, 2024, during prime time.
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Watercolour
squwetchy #watercolour #flower at the the #botanicgarden
Thursday the 6th of June, 2024, around lunch-ish.
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Watercolour Class 7
squwetchy A practice rose by any other name? #watercolour class number 7 means that I really only have one more homework assignment, huh? [read more...]
Thursday the 6th of June, 2024, in the morning.
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Watercolor Revisited
squwetchy About six hours later I decided this #dandelion #watercolour was a little lacking in depth, so I spent another hour or so adding lots of shading, some subtle some not, and now I think it has a lot more oomph. What say you? [read more...]
Sunday the 2nd of June, 2024, posted at bedtime.
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Watercolour
squwetchy #dandelion #flower in #watercolour
Sunday the 2nd of June, 2024, before dinner.
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Watercolour
squwetchy Week four of my #watercolour class and we dug into some interesting new techniques for this elaborate people flower. Some lifting and some layered/blending washes had some interesting optical effects related to what goes the illusion of transparency on the petals. I have been pushing in the boundaries of my backgrounds for all the pieces I’ve completed for this class …which was above and beyond to the assignment, and just something I’d seen done online. The instructor really likes it tho and has been ribbing me and calling it The Brad Technique and some of my fellow students have started to imitate it.
Wednesday the 15th of May, 2024, during prime time.
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Watercolour
squwetchy Oh sure, you say, after all those pretty flower pictures now you go and post some depressing #dystopian #watercolour scene from a Fallout game or something, but see the thing is this was inspired, colours and all, by a photograph I took this morning of the creek valley filtered through the haze of all that forest #firesmoke, so… put that in your pipe and… well.
Saturday the 11th of May, 2024, before dinner.
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Watercolor Flowers Week 2
squwetchy Apart from the small paint splatter accident mid way thru, my #watercolour #flower painting homework for week two turned out better than I’d expected. to be honest, I didn’t really like this picture when he showed it to us last night and the results that he got were a little flat and uninspired for my own personal tastes, which has less to do with the artistic quality and more to do with the lesson that was being forwarded in our second class. I tried to duplicate the results as best as I could, and then soften the background a little bit more than he had in his original piece, which was a fairly abrupt matte black. Watercolour flowers week 2 homework used about fifty bucks* worth of yellow paint but the results seem worth it. *tho not really
Wednesday the 1st of May, 2024, posted after lunch.
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Watercolour Flowers Week 1
squwetchy Take two: This is the second attempt, my “homework” attempt at the same #flower image as my last post from my #watercolour course night one.
Wednesday the 24th of April, 2024, posted after lunch.
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Art Class
squwetchy It has been almost a year since I took a #watercolour class at the local recreation centre. Last spring I took a course from a local teacher on painting Canadian landscapes in watercolours which taught me a whole bunch of new techniques and ideas for improving my personal sketching and painting. This spring, I signed up for a second course by the same teacher, but this time our focus is #flower painting in watercolour. we are encouraged to document the process each class by taking photos of the various stages of the artwork as we paint it as a group, but our instructor insisted obviously that none of those pictures that would hint or give away course materials be posted anywhere so while you will see a number of finished Paintings as a progress through the course over the next few weeks the closest I can give you to show some of the background is a picture like this of me documenting the colour I used to mix for one particular stage, which I don’t think gives much away.
Wednesday the 24th of April, 2024, in the morning.
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