Professional artist Wendy Jelbert demonstrated how she uses acrylics in April.
She worked on watercolour paper from a prepared outline sketch based in a photograph and laid down transparent background washes.
Some of her trademark watercolour techniques were used, such as negative painting background around the people shapes, soft wet-into-wet gradation and masking fluid applied with pen to preserve white areas.
Her helpful techniques chart also included: underpainting with white paint and texture gel.
Wendy cleverly used larger areas of brighter primary colours blue and yellow in the market stall area.
She integrated the figures into the scene using different hues of the same colours and increasing selected contrasts in tone.
We saw how a simple scene could be developed into a more finished work using layers to achieve a richer texture.
We enjoyed following Wendy's process!
See more about Wendy on her website: https://www.wendyjelbert.co.uk/
