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"A little amateur painting in water-color shows the innocent and quiet mind."

(Robert Louis Stevenson)

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A few more pithy QUOTATIONS on PAINTING

"Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." (Pablo Picasso)
"Painting: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." (Ambrose Bierce)
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." (Edgar Degas)
"Art is just a pigment of your imagination." (Tony Follari, Comedian)
"I’d be an axe murderer, if I didn’t paint." (John Alexander)
"I paint in order not to cry." (Paul Klee)
"White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities."
('Sunday in the Park with George', by Stephen Sondhiem and James Lapine

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Slide Show of 5 Watercolour Paintings
In these particular paintings, significantly larger than my normal work, I used a sponge roller to apply initial colour washes to the background. Then I added outline drawing using pen and black Indian ink, followed by infill and further broad washes with watercolour.
The titles of the 5 subjects are given below:
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Quayside and the Liver Building, Liverpool
Hydra from the harbour - one of the Greek Saronic Gulf islands
Mount Orgeuil Castle, Jersey
Yacht cruising among the Mediterranean islands
Floodlit scene in Prague, Czech Republic

GALLERY
A selection of my watercolours, pen and ink drawings, sketches and paintings - mostly of landscapes in the U.K. and in France.
Click on a thumb-nail picture to see an enlargement.

Harbour View at Peele
Isle of Man
Harbour View at
Lynmouth, North Devon
Watching a Cricket
Match in April
Doorway at Barrington
Court, Somerset
Doorway at Ightham
Mote in Kent

Point of Ayr Lighthouse,
Isle of Man Sunset on Rannoch Moor,
Scotland
Kilnsey Crag, Wharfedale,
North Yorkshire London Skyline looking
south over Hyde Park
Bosham Harbour,
West Sussex

House in the Rocks,
Plougrescant, N.Brittany Lighthouse on the
Ile de Grois, France
An English Dawn
Ludlow, Shropshire Exmouth, Devon
Mont St. Michel