cachi - persimmon fruit

© JANE MINTER 

"cachi"
ripening persimmon fruit
 watercolour study 
still life painted from life
31 x 42 cm

TEXTURES - CYPRUS BLACK SALT FLAKES

2015 © JANE MINTER

Cyprus black salt flakes   

 "Cypro"  white sea salt flakes with activated charcoal

2015 © JANE MINTER

MONTHLY CHALLENGE  # SALT

http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/

Cyprus black salt flakes  + tinted wet wash

Canson Fontenay 300g/m2

applying black salt very finely grinded on wet wash ...the black is the charcoal of the black salt

2015 © JANE MINTER

MONTHLY CHALLENGE  # SALT

http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/

 Cyprus black salt flakes + colbalt violet Maimeriblu  

 Canson Fontenay 300g/m2

3 seperate watercolour  washes....exploring mixing watercolour with salt and then applying with flat brush directly on paper wet on dry ( black salt with grinder was added in some areas)  

TEXTURES - BLACK SALT + WATERCOLOUR

2015 © JANE MINTER

MONTHLY CHALLENGE  # SALT

Cyprus black salt flakes   

 "Cypro"  white sea salt flakes with activated charcoal

 

2015 © JANE MINTER

Violetta di cobalto 

 colbalt violet - Maimeri Blu

2015 © JANE MINTER

MONTHLY CHALLENGE  # SALT

Cyprus black salt flakes  + Violetta di cobalto
 Canson Fontenay 300g/m2
 working flat 

2015 © JANE MINTER

MONTHLY CHALLENGE  # SALT

http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/

Cyprus black salt flakes  + Violetta di cobalto 

Canson Fontenay 300g/m2

gently tilting the paper  after the salt is applied 

.....above are 3 examples of black salt flakes grinded finely on various washes of violet colbalt "wet on dry"

I'm sharing the first of two posts I made earlier on in the year for the monthly challenge with salt from "WASH A WEEK CHALLENGE"

link : http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/

buddleia - summer lilac

© JANE MINTER 
" fading buddleia" 

summer lilac - butterfly bush

memories of France

watercolour study 
31 x 42 cm

St.Martin's summer # 2

© 2015 JANE MINTER

"WILD SAGE "

SALVIA SELVATICA

WATERCOLOUR SKETCH
WILD BLUE FLOWERS # 2

ERBE DEI CAMPI - WILD HERBS
painted from life

St.Martin's Summer

© 2015 JANE MINTER

"COMMON CHICORY"

CICHORIUM INTYBUS

WATERCOLOUR SKETCH
WILD BLUE FLOWERS # 1

ERBE DEI CAMPI - LA CICORIA COMUNE
painted from life

As November finishes the fields and meadows are still a mass of wild flowers and herbs. A quick and simple watercolour sketch of one of many wild blue flowers .

IN THE SKETCHBOOK # 6

© 2015 JANE MINTER

"IN THE SKETCHBOOK"

WATERCOLOUR WASHES
photo of page from

WATERCOLOUR MOLESKINE SKETCHBOOK

IN THE SKETCHBOOK # 5

© 2015 JANE MINTER

"IN THE SKETCHBOOK"

WATERCOLOUR WASHES
green
photo of page from

WATERCOLOUR MOLESKINE SKETCHBOOK

© 2015 JANE MINTER

watercolour wash # 5

 2015 @ JANE MINTER

WATERCOLOUR WASH - WEEK # 5 

SIZE : 24 X 32 cm

WATERCOLOURS :TRANSCULENT ORANGE ( SCHMINCKE) + CAD ORANGE ((W&N) +  NAPLES YELLOW (W&N) + BURNT UMBER( (W&N) + RAW UMBER (MAIMERI BLU) +* SEPIA  W&N)

TECHNIQUE : "WET ON DRY WASH + WET IN WET  + WASHING OFF +  LIFTING + SPONGING

BRUSHES : FLAT 50MM + SPONGE ROLLER + NATURAL SPONGE 

  PAPER : canson MONTVAL 300 g/m2

2015 @ JANE MINTER 

http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/

watercolour wash # 4

© 2015 JANE MINTER

WATERCOLOUR WASH #4

http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/

 WATERCOLOURS :TRANSCULENT ORANGE ( SCHMINCKE) + CAD ORANGE ((W&N) +  NAPLES YELLOW (W&N) + RAW UMBER (MAIMERI BLU)  

TECHNIQUE : " WET ON DRY"

BRUSHES : FLAT 50MM

                          PAPER : canson MONTVAL 300 g/m2

© 2015 JANE MINTER

WATERCOLOUR WASH #4

watercolour wash challenge - week #3

© 2015 JANE MINTER

WATERCOLOUR WASH #3

http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/

 WATERCOLOURS :TRANSCULENT ORANGE ( SCHMINCKE) + CAD ORANGE ((W&N) +  NAPLES YELLOW (W&N) + RAW UMBER (MAIMERI BLU)  

TECHNIQUE : " WET ON DRY"

BRUSHES : FLAT 50MM

                          PAPER : canson MONTVAL 300 g/m2

© 2015 JANE MINTER

WATERCOLOUR WASH #3

posting the first of a  few of the watercolour washes I started  with the wash a week challenge at the beginning of the year below is the link to the blog:

http://washaweekchallenge.blogspot.it/