Watercolour Journey by Ian McKendrick

Posted by Ian on Aug 18, 2011

Keble Bridge Eastleach

Keble Bridge is my latest project and is one of the demonstrations from David Bellamy’s book Developing Your Watercolours which is published by Collins. This book is aimed at those who already have some experience in watercolour painting, although much of the book will also be of interest and value to beginners and more experienced artists alike. It’s a wonderful book, and packed from cover...

Posted by Ian on Aug 15, 2011

Dublin Doorway

Dublin Doorway is the most recent project I’ve been working on. It’s one of the projects from Terry Harrison’s book, Ready to Paint – Ireland in watercolour, published by Search Press. The book runs to 47 pages, contains clear instructions with step-by-step photographs, five projects and six reusable tracings to get you started with the minimum of fuss. Although Dublin Doorway was...

Posted by Ian on Jun 23, 2011

Bluebell Wood

Here is a watercolour painting that I painted in the Terry Harrison style, taken from page 102 of his book Brush With Watercolour – Painting Landscapes The Easy Way This has to be one of the best books in my collection and runs to 128 pages. The first half of the book explains a multitude of useful watercolour techniques, as well as how to get the best out of the Terry Harrison’s Complete Brush...

Posted by Ian on Jun 23, 2011

Scottish Loch

This is the third exercise that I tried from Ray Campbell Smith’s 2000 publication Landscapes in Watercolour. This exercise from page 34 of his book is broken down into 5 stages and helps you to put into practice some of the techniques that he describes earlier in his book. You learn how to create hard edged reflections to suggest the rippling surface of the water. Ripples are not quite as easy as...

Posted by Ian on Jun 20, 2011

Country Landscape

Here’s one of the first exercises that I tried from Ray Campbell Smith’s 2000 publication Landscapes in Watercolour. This particular exercise from page 22 of his book is broken down into 11 stages, and helps you to put into practice some of the techniques that he describes earlier. You will learn how to create and use a variegated wash, a flat wash, a broken wash, wet-in-wet, dry brushwork, and...

Posted by Ian on Jun 20, 2011

Reflections of Mountains

Here’s another one of the exercises that I tried from Alelene Fletcher’s 2003 publication The Watercolour Landscape Painter’s Pocket Palette. This particular exercise is on page 44, under the Inland Water section, and just like the other exercises in the book , is broken down into three stages. The first stage takes you through using masking fluid for the snow capped mountains, and...

Posted by Ian on Jun 20, 2011

Grassy Knolls

Here’s another painting that I did about three years ago, from one of the exercises from Alelene Fletcher’s 2003 publication The Watercolour Landscape Painter’s Pocket Palette. This particular exercise is on page 18, under the Mountains section, and is in three stages. The first stage is laying down the Transparent Yellow wash mixed with a Cobalt Blue wash in the distant field, pale...

Posted by Ian on Sep 15, 2010

Fields of Corn Harvested

I painted this watercolour about 3 years ago and it is one of my favourite paintings. It was the result of one of the exercises from Alelene Fletcher’s 2003 publication The Watercolour Landscape Painter’s Pocket Palette. The instructions take you through the use of masking fluid, laying a wash and dropping in stronger colours to lay the foundations of the painting, then building...