FINISHING AND FRAMING WITH JOHN SHOTTER

John is a successful landscape painter and member of Totton Art Society. His August demonstration showed the later stages of painting a watercolour scene.

He included some useful painting tips: 

• create foliage by applying a sponge with only a 'kiss and a whisper' i.e. hardly touching the paper
• create sunlit foliage by applying white gouache+a touch of lemon yellow with a sponge
• create a field of poppies  or roses around a door by applying white gouache with a sponge, then ading daps of red on top
• use a closer-textured sponge for distant foliage

and framing tips :

• use photographic corners to hold the painting against the mount
• twist the cord to make it taut 

Photos: Di Alexander