Blackpool Beach Watercolour Roughs and a Blackpool Sunset…
03 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
This was a little watercolour sketch of the sunset this evening… it was very interesting because the deep red was obscured by cloud. It’s been quite breezy so the view was changing very quickly as I painted the colours… a bit of an experiment. It’s good fun to try to capture the colours in the sky as it changes.
Here’s a little scrappy watercolour experiment in preparation for a recent painting of Blackpool beach… this is watercolour rough no.1 which I felt was too measured and included too much instead of focussing on what I perceive when I look at a scene I like… I don’t think we see literally; like a camera lens with every detail; I think we see what we want to see – focus on what interests us, holds a memory, reminds us of something… I wanted to try to include what interests me in the scene which was quite difficult … it’s easier to include everything…. and far too much.
So here’s watercolour rough number 2, trying again to focus on what I actually focussed on the day I saw the beach and really liked the view in front of me… I was happy with less detail in this one… I didn’t bother with detail on the tower…. it’s not the right shape…neither is the pier… I just wanted to simplify the image into the elements that interest me…
So this is watercolour rough number 3 and I felt I was starting to get there, starting to emphasise what I wanted to paint and leave out what I didn’t want to paint…
