Twelve More

Here are twelve more watercolour paintings by a variety of artists, some I know, some I don 't. They illustrate the wide range of subjects and the superb work that is attained by these and many other artists in our preferred medium..

Charles Reid

Diann C Benoit

Millind Mullick

N B Gurung

Stephie Butler

Morten E Solberg Snr

Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey

Nusret Topuzoglu

Zhen Jing

Vasili Pohomov

Gerard Hendriks

Viktoria Prischedko

Not bad are they! Wish I could paint like some - most actually - of these artists

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`Alert for Danger' - Latest Painting

This is my latest painting, painted at an AVA `catchup session'. Actually I missed the previous two so didn't have anything to catch up. I'm increasingly inclined to mainly confine my subjects to animals. birds and portraits. 

 Alert for Danger -16" x 12" centenaire 140lb (300gsm) not

I only decided what to do when I was at the AVA session. I first made a drawing using a Pentel  No7 2B mechanical pencil with my version of Charles Reids contour drawing technique. I really don't like over finished paintings so it's a sort of vignette.

Colours used were Raw Sienna, Gold Ochre, Raw Umber, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Violet and for the greens, Green Apatite. Green-Gold and Sap Green, various makes. The darks were a mixture of Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Umber

I only used three brushes, Escoda retractable Kolinsky no 10, Isabey retractable Kolinsky no 6 and Rosemary retractable No 6. 

It's a modest little painting but I'm quite pleased with it. 

Latest Activities via the AVA (Avon Valley Artists)

My painting activities have been somewhat limited lately for reasons I won't go into but I'm still going to the AVA sessions and here are some of the paintings from some of the members and myself.

Peter Ward - an attempt at an abstract approach for the subject of  buildings, not one of my favourites

Yvonne Harry - actually pastels unusual for Yvonne.

A general view of some members work on the buildings subject

Peter Ward - Still like with flowers

Yvonne Harry- same subject. Yvonne and Jan were over an hour late due to a serious traffic holdup so their work was unfinished.

Clive Brotherton

Jan Weeks - unfinished for the reason given above.

Various still lifes

Walt Longmire from the television western `Longmire'

Peter Ward - I finished early one week so started on this one. Not very successful

 Model from the Next Ad in my newspaper. I rather liked this one but after viewing it the following day decided not to do any more, leaving me open to `the `unfinished' label