Watercolour: Friends Forever

The Whitehorse Arts Association holds regular 'Challenges' in which people are invited to submit artworks in either mediums with which they are unfamiliar or on specific topics. The next 'Challenge' is "Pet Portrait". I've never painted or drawn any animals before and we have no pets, other than three goldfish that inhabit our garden pond. I could paint them but they seem to be all mouth - and only seen at feeding time!
Friends kindly let me use their beagles as models and the result is this portrait - thanks to Gerry for the photos.

 Friends Forever

Watercolour

375mm w x 275mm h

New Watercolour "The Red Roof"

It seems like forever since I updated this watercolour wandering blog. I guess I have been wandering doing other things and neglecting this.
I have been trying to paint as much as possible [which isn't as much as I'd like] and have produced a number of paintings which will appear here over the next few weeks.
Here's the first one for a while: The Red Roof. Our neighbours are traveling in England at the moment and regularly send photos - which are excellent. The Red Roof is my interpretation of a photo taken at Quebec House, Westerham in Kent.

The Red Roof

Watercolour

275mm h x 375mm w

First Still Life Watercolour

This is my first attempt at a still life painted as part of a Monday afternoon group I attend. This term we have four [very different] topics to be painted in a medium of choice. I have never attempted a still life before and this is the result.

First Tulips
Watercolour
28.5cm h x 38cm w


Still life is just as challenging as any other subject matter with the exception that it doesn't move, I suppose.