by Ian McKendrick | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
I painted this watercolour painting project back in September 2012, but with everything that’s been going on over the last 18 months I’ve only just had the chance to post it to my blog. It’s from David Bellamy’s watercolour book Mountains and...
by Ian McKendrick | Jan 7, 2014 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
Here’s my recent watercolour painting project from Joe Francis Dowdens watercolour book Ready To Paint: Venice in Watercolour, published by Search Press, and its accompanying DVD “Gondolas” published by Teaching Art. The book and DVD is aimed at...
by Ian McKendrick | May 8, 2013 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
Here’s my recent watercolour painting project from Geoff Kersey’s watercolour book Ready to Paint: Watercolour Trees and Woodlands, published by Search Press, and its accompanying DVD “Autumn Woodland” published by Teaching Art. The book and...
by Ian McKendrick | May 7, 2013 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
My latest watercolour painting project is from Geoff Kersey’s watercolour DVD “The Road From Stanton Lees” published by Teaching Art. The painting is featured on page 5 of his book Ready to Paint: Watercolour Trees and Woodlands, published by Search...
by Ian McKendrick | Aug 18, 2011 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
Keble Bridge is my latest watercolour 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 painting watercolours, although much...
by Ian McKendrick | Aug 15, 2011 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
Dublin Doorway is the most recent watercolour project I’ve been working on and is 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...
by Ian McKendrick | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
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...
by Ian McKendrick | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
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...
by Ian McKendrick | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
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...
by Ian McKendrick | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
Here’s another one of the exercises that I tried from Adelene 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...
by Ian McKendrick | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
Here’s another painting that I did about three years ago, from one of the exercises from Adelene Fletcher’s 2003 publication The Watercolour Landscape Painter’s Pocket Palette. This particular exercise is on page 18, under the Mountains section, and...
by Ian McKendrick | Sep 15, 2010 | Blog, Watercolour Projects
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 Adelene Fletcher’s 2003 publication The Watercolour Landscape Painter’s Pocket Palette. The instructions take you through...