Off work today with a sprained ankle, staying busy without moving.
I thought I'd try an exercise from the watercolour book Learn to Paint with Alwyn Crawshaw. I picked up a second hand copy of this at a church booksale, as I remembered having the book many years ago. The painting started well, but then I felt it got bogged down in detail, his are quite precise and realistic. For me, that's not what I enjoy so I got in there with some scrawly pencil and runny paint and now I quite like it.
I did try using some bolder colours though, which was fun as I am usually a bit fixated on grey, blue, olive green and reddish brown. Backgrounds are also a bugbear of mine, so maybe some progress there too.
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