Reminiscing

Winter has finally set in in Perth so it's nice to remember our Endless Summer in 2010...

It started like this...

Then it began to look like this...

Then we went here...

and ate our own body weight in basque food and gaufre (waffles)

Then traveled overland to here

Then we high-tailed it across the sea...

and drove to another western coast

And finally landed in the middle of the Pacific which looked like paradise.

For more images click through the photos to my flickr

Watercolour course - final week

 

Here's my finished painting with details added and the tones in the car darkened. Getting the right balance with light and dark has been a challenge. Plus figuring out what to try to paint in and what to leave out.

This painting was inspired by a photo by photographer, Ryan Tatar. His photos have a wonderful retro feel and are often themed around surf culture in California.
Click through on the images below to visit his flickr photostream.

Watercolour course - Part 2

We did flowers this week. I'm not totally thrilled with what I did, but I learned something. I like some of the poppies in the image below. I had fun working wet-in-wet and trying to create light and shadow by adding water.

This one was really just to play around with salt. meh.

This one I started in week 3 and have almost finished. I'm really happy with it and am stoked that I managed to draw a car. I spent a lot of time drawing before I got into painting. Since this photo I've touched up a few things and made some shadows darker.

This is the original photo by Ryan Tatar that I've worked from. He takes wonderful photos and you should check his retro world out here.