by Andy Gray | Nov 23, 2014 | watercolours
Two great uses of lifting prep fluid and gum arabic. 1) To aid in lifting 2) They increase the brilliance of watercolours by preventing breakdown of paper fibres by water and therefore keeping the paint particles lying on the surface of the medium. The first one...
by Andy Gray | Nov 14, 2014 | Colour illustration, watercolours
This view of Pendle Hill is taken from a rather drab picture I found on the web. It’s the final picture I’ve been doing for a family member….it’s taken a while! Too busy I guess. i wanted to still pick up the feeling of late autumn, but bring...
by Andy Gray | May 1, 2014 | Colour illustration, watercolours
art copy and why you should do it Art requires a few things: A great idea Composition Colour choices Execution The last one means you need a degree of technical expertise. In the old days, before I was born, ahem, the old masters had apprentices who were talented, but...
by Andy Gray | Apr 11, 2014 | Colour illustration, watercolours
Italian washing line in shade I’ve been working on the watercolours still. Again doodling, trying to make it all work. Apart from the what does the fox say? tribute kinda thing, I wanted to see how I could do adding more doodles and depth. just for the record,...
by Andy Gray | Apr 10, 2014 | Colour illustration, Doodle art, watercolours
What does the fox say? Pen and watercolour illustration This is something of an experiment. It started off as one of my usual doodles until it was finished, then I copied it on high quality onto 140lb water colour paper. I bought a canon Pixma MG5500, principally...
by Andy Gray | Apr 1, 2014 | watercolours
Not everything works out. It doesn’t look too bad (ahem) on the computer screen, but that’s because I tweaked it a bit. The reality is that not every picture works out ok. I laboured over it too much. There are parts of it that are ok…and I’ve...
