Watercolour demo

Posted by Stephen Quirke on August 21, 2010 under Art, landscape, painting, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 8 Comments to Read

At the August monthly meeting of the Western Cape Watercolour Group I rashly offered to do a demo, if they needed someone.  Cherry, our erstwhile chair, suggested this month would be good.  And it was.  This afternoon I rushed through the coming storm to the library hall to set up.  I had prepared nothing.  My idea was to encourage everyone there to go out and paint in the field.   Earlier in the week I had taken some photos at the Pipe.  I had got there just as the sun was going down so I actually missed the bright son on the mountains but I got enough for a demo.  So I pretended we were at The Pipe and I set up my box and pretended the photo on my laptop was my ‘view’.  And off we went.

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