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(Re)Discovering Watercolour Painting

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Some of my warmest early memories are of spending time watercolour painting with my grandad when I was a young child. Forty years later, I bought myself some watercolour paint pans, pencils, and fineliner art pens to take it up again. This is my most recent attempt, traced initially from a photo I took at Animal Antiks in North Marston whilst walking an Alpaca. 

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I've never painted, or sketched, a portrait before. But I was wanting to paint something for friends to celebrate their engagement and the arrival of a baby. I could only think to suggest the figures using minimalist lines, and after much doodling, it all seemed to flow into a heart shape. I used a 0.1mm Pitt pen (permanent and waterproof) and watercolour pencils, bought from Hobbycraft at the retail park on Cambridge Street.

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I've been enjoying the freedom of just using a sketching pencil, watercolour pencils, water brush pen, and a fineliner recently. This is a Kingfisher  I started painting at Animal Antiks and finished off at home. No pots of water, palettes etc!

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The initial sketch was composed of light pencil lines, which I then coloured using watercolour pencils, activated by a water brush. I also used a fineliner pen (0.05).

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Base Calames holiday gite in the French Pyrenees, watercolour pencil and fineliner pen.

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A Yellow Rose in Watercolour pencil.

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