colour theory - swatches + watercolour washes

© 2013 JANE MINTER
"burnt umber + perylene green" 

colour swatches (mixing in palette)  +  wet in wet watercolour washes

© JANE MINTER

"burnt umber + perylene green" 

colour swatches + wash

At the start of January Maggie Latham generously started colour tutorials on her blog, the link is below : Maggie also made a series of very interesting interviews about Artist who blog
 Artist to Artist about role of colour in there work and influences  

 Maggie Latham's Free Tutorials  

"31 DAYS OF COLOUR" 

http://maggielathamstudios.blogspot.it/2012/12/31-days-of-colour-introduction.html 

...posting  my colour swatches and  watercolour washes of just one of the combinations I particularly liked   burnt umber + perylene green 

  

Lost in Venice

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"Lost in Venice"

smarrito

watercolour sketch 

single larch cone

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"single larch cone" 

larix iii

watercolour study
painted from life 

pine cone - pigna

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"pine cone"

picea abies cone

abete rosso - pigna

european spuce 

initial  watercolour wash 

larix

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"larch branch"

larix decidua - pinacaeal - pino larice

watercolour

32 x 41cm 

 painted from life 

© 2013 JANE MINTER

"larch cones"  

larix decidua - pinacaeal - pino larice

watercolour

32 x 41cm

painted from life

.....first sketches of the New Year from the Alps

HAPPY CHRISTMAS - BUON NATALE

BUON NATALE 

© JANE MINTER 2012 

WISHING YOU ALL 

A VERY 

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

tanti auguri

JANE + FAMILY

textures - watercolour + ink

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"watercolour + ink"

textural swatch

  ...... watercolour wash with black rotring ink added and then blue rotring ink 

tree seeds ii

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"tree seeds" 
tree seeds ii

initial watercolour wash 

wet in wet 
24 x 32 cm 

painted from life 

CORSO DI AQUARELLO - WATERCOLOUR COURSE in ITALY

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CORSO DI AQUARELLO SETTIMANALE

con JANE MINTER

OTT - DIC 2012

Aula Civica

Comune Di Schio 

SCHIO Margè

Veneto

ITALIA 

WATERCOLOUR COURSE with JANE MINTER

OCT - DEC 2012 Civic Hall Comune di Schio SCHIO  Magrè Veneto ITALY 

Si sta concludendo un corso di una lezione settimanale di acquarello a Schio. Ho  insegnato ad un gruppo di acquerellisti meraviglioso e pieni di entusiasmo. Questa settimana è l'ultima lezione e vorrei ringraziare di cuore tutti i partecipanti e le persone che hanno collaborato all'organizzazione.  

A presto Jane .

Since october I have taught a weekly watercolour lesson to a wonderful group of Italian artists full of enthusiasm . This week is the last lesson and I would like to thank them all from the bottom of my heart  and everyone who collobrated in the organisation  of the course.

blues

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"blue+ purple" 

watercolour wash 

wet in wet initial wash 
24 x32cm 
 cold pressed "NOT" CANSON FONTENAY

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"blue + purple" 

section of watercolour wash

cold pressed "NOT" CANSON FONTENAY



.....posting an initial "wet in wet"watercolour wash . 

ivy branch ii

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"ivy branch ii"

watercolour study 
24 x 32 cm 

work in progress ...posting another study of ivy branch ! ... I often paint quite a few studies  of the same subject... I wasn't happy with the intial wash but decided to carry on working on it as an exercise to explore the subject more. .

ivy seed head sketch

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ivy seed head" 

watercolour sketch 

painted from life

........a small loose watercolour sketch of ivy seed head  in jam jar painted on offcut 

ivy branch

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"ivy branch"

ivy seed heads 

watercolour study

24 x 32cm  

.....posting another small watercolour study of the ivy branch with seed heads .....painted from life

ivy seed head

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"ivy seed head"

24 x 32cm 

watercolour study

painted from life  

.....the beautiful  clusters of ivy seed heads caught my eye this week  ...i'm posting an initial study of a single ivy seed head.

textures - watercolour + salt

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"watercolour + salt"
detail of watercolour wash 

© JANE MINTER
"watercolour + salt" 
section  of watercolour wash 

....posting another salt wash ... i used fine table salt here with  lots of water ....."washing off" some areas where i had already applied salt  and re - applying salt and pigment in other areas.

watercolour wash

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"watercolour wash" 

watercolour + salt

wired buttons

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"wired buttons"

watercolour 

24 x 32 cm

still life of a line of tiny old buttons threaded together with wire .

carrube

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"carrube"

carob pods
 "ceratonia" 
32 x 41cm 
 watercolour study painted from life 

..... the dark carob pods have started falling from the trees

olive branches

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"olive branch i " 

watercolour study 

32x41cm

painted from life ...no pencil

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"black olives" 

close up of "olive branch i"
watercolour  
painted from life ...no pencil

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"olive branch ii" 

watercolour study
32x41cm
painted from life ..no pencil

© JANE MINTER

"black olive" 

close up of "olive branch ii"
watercolour
 painted from life 

November marks the.time for olive harvest in Italy ....the olives are ripe and "olive picking season" has started ....posting a couple of  the watercolour studies of olive branches I painted this week  .

glazing techniques in watercolour

"orange + blue"

watercolour wash 

based on glazing exrecise from 

"MASTERING GLAZING TECHNIQUES IN WATERCOLOUR" 

by Don Rankin 

"yellow + red + blue" 
watercolour washes
initial glazing exercises 

 from 

"MASTERING GLAZING TECHNIQUES IN WATERCOLOUR" 
by Don Rankin 

....whilst I was parpicipating with 100 washes challenge Maggie Latham recommended an excellent book  "MASTERING GLAZING TECHNIQUES IN WATERCOLOUR" by Don Rankin .

I'd  like to thank Don Rankin  for his  kind permission to post my initial glazing exercises from his book "MASTERING GLAZING TECHNIQUES IN WATERCOLOUR"
below is the link to his website.

Don Rankin's website : 

http://www.donrankinwatercolorstudio.com    

ART and ARCHITECTURE

" Façade"

MUSEUM BRANDHORST 

MUNICH GERMANY 

designed by SAURBRUCH HUTTON architects 

 photos showing  glazed ceramic rods 
photos by JANE MINTER  NOV 2012 

....sharing a few photos I took of  the dynamic and innovative  façade of Museum Brandhorst which we visited this weekend . The design of the façade is considered as a work of art in itself.

" 
 http://www.museum-brandhorst.de/

 Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto :

 the current exhibition "Revolution" shows a series of  incredible nocturnal seascape photos by photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto
http://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/exhibition-preview/hiroshi-sugimoto.html

Artist CY Twombly :
"The meaning of the work is in the doing of it"
CY Twombly


The museum houses a large collection of CY Twombly paintings which were fascinating to see
http://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/collection-brandhorst/cy-twombly.html

MUSEUM BRANDHORST 

photo by JANE MINTER  NOV 2012 

Blogosphere

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"secateurs"
"forbici"
32 x 41cm 
pruning sheers painted from life - 2010

I've been blogging for 3 years this month .... I'd just like to say a big thanks to all my fellow bloggers who follow my blog and take the time to leave comments .

A special word of thanks to the following bloggers for mentioning my blog in recent blog posts :

Many thanks to artist and writer  Katherine Tyrrell MAKING A MARK  for kindly mentioning  my blog on her post yesterday "WHO'S MADE A MARK THIS WEEK " . Katherine writes  a number of very informative and  interesting blogs which you can find links to on her blogspot  http://makingamark.blogspot.it/


The other week  French arist  Anne Le Maitre Blue de Prusse  who illustrates and writes the most beautiful travel logs showcased my blog . Please look at  her delightful  blog http://alm-bleudeprusse.blogspot.it/where you can find all her publications.   I love how Anne captured the Spire -Benigne on the cover of Djon carnet d'artiste . ...thankyou once again Anne  .

© Anne Le Maitre

"Dijon canet d'artiste"

Travel log

And Lastly :

I'd also like to thank artist Bix Nash who runs the watercolour challenges on www.idrawandpaint.com for mentioning my blog as a reference for the recent challenge for experimenting with textures .  Bix is currently  running an autumn watercolour challenge for this month .

Bix Nash  runs painting holidays in France you can find her facebook page France Painting Holiday otherwise  www.francepaintingholiday.com

   

Spaghetti

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"spaghetti"

watercolour study 

56 x76cm 

Fabriano Artistico
...box of spaghetti painted from life 

dry dock ii

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"red + yellow + blue" 

waterline ii

dry dock inspiration ii 

watercolour wash

32 x 41 cm 

.....so much work is involved in maintaining and painting boats .Many of the weathered boat hulls in the dry docks are similar to works of art in progress.

dry dock

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"red + blue" 

waterline i

dry dock inspiration

watercolour wash

32 x 41 cm 

....inspired by boats in  dry dock  I 've started to work on an idea for  a series of paintings based on photos I have taken whilst wallking around  a boatyard.

pomegranates - melagrane

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"melagrane"

"pomegranates"

watercolour
25 x 35cm 

still life painted from life no pencil

discarded

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"discarded"

 found  empty shotgun catridge - birdshot catridge 
watercolour sketch 
still life 

Valle del Guà

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"Valle del Guà"

Veneto , Italia

view across the valley 

small plein air watercolour sketch 

A6 Format 

Lagoon of Marano

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"Laguna di Marano"

Lagoon of Marano

watercolour
.painted from memory 

orange rose hip

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"orange rose hip" 

watercolour study WIP 

32 x 41cm

painted from life with no pencil sketch

.....posting  a  quick initial wet in wet study WIP painted with a large  flat brush 2" /50 mm .