A dry and sunny day in August is as rare as hen’s teeth in these here parts so despite smothering with a cold and sore throat, Husb and I put on our jackets and drove down to Southgate on the Gower Peninsula for a couple of hours. I sat in the sunshine on the clifftop and did some quick and tiny watercolour studies, en plein air, using Winsor & Newton half pans onto a rough Saunders Waterford watercolour paper (300 gsm) from St. Cuthbert’s Mill which comes as a glued block. I haven’t used glued paper before and it’s brilliant, no need to stretch the paper before use. I tried to ignore the detail of what I saw before me and concentrate on getting down the colours while Husb picked blackberries. He’s in the kitchen now, getting this year’s Bramble Jelly started. mmmmmmmm 😀
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I hope you are feeling better by now Rosie..
Thanks Helen. Rotten summer cold, nothing serious but to be honest I think it’s man flu 😉
Haha !!
I gave up stretching watercolor paper shortly after I took up watercolor painting LOL! I like Arches cold press paper but find it a bit intimidating because it’s so danged expensive. I can make all the mistakes I want on my Aquabords, they’re a lot more forgiving but require a learning curve to deal with them successfully. I guess there’s no easy answer to anything about being an artist, right?
Oooh I haven’t heard of Aquaboards. I’ll have to check them out 😀
Well trained husband. 😄
Hehehe 😁