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 learnt from. Thats the point though, that you should learn from every painting.
I learnt that I tend to underestimate how thick the paint actually needs to be to get a good saturation. Equally, I learned that if you are doing a pen and ink wash, then don’t over do the pen work first.
But its all worth the effort. You have to do a picture, and then push it to the end to know what does and doesn’t work. Trevor told me the other day, he being a profession n’ all, that not all his paintings work out.
So you just try, try and try again!
Spain watercolour that went wrong
