An Evening with Kay Le Poidevin
Kay started the evening by announcing she wasn't going to
paint one picture for us but three! This was because she always works on
several pictures at once as she allows washes to dry thoroughly each time to
preserve the luminosity of the watercolours.
She also changes the water frequently and uses large
brushes. The paper she prefers is Saunders Waterford which is a rag based paper
and can take many washes.
Her subjects were scenes of the Solent .
After first wetting the paper Kay put on washes of aureolin and
rose madder on two boards spreading the colours out with a large brush each
time. When these were dry cobalt blue was washed into the sky and then burnt
sienna added to produce grey rain clouds. The horizon line was drawn with a
grey watercolour pencil and the painted in with ultramarine, burnt sienna and quinacridone
violet.
Different details were then added to produce two different
pictures one with Calshot Spit and the other with a shinglebank and the Island . Colours were removed using water to produce light
tones and deeper tones added with more paint. Building, channel markers and
chimneys were placed as silhouettes to give drama to the scenes.
After the break Kay started to work on a previously prepared
Saunders Waterford paper which she had covered with washes of Windsor
yellow, quinacridone magenta and Windsor
She then put in details of cliffs and added a moon and
moonlight using naples
Kay during her demonstration had introduced us to some
unusual watercolour methods as well as emphasising some basic ones and gave us
an instructive and valuable evening . We were very grateful to her for this and
for standing in at such short notice.
Members attending should have instruction sheets of what to
bring from Di. Time to start getting prepared now!
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| Solent View 2 |
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| Solent View 1 |
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| Basic Picture |
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| Finished Picture |
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| Kay with her final painting |
