I've been rereading Webb On Watercolour and was reminded of the push-pull technique which I…
The WongAvery Music Gallery, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
I’ve had two trips to Cambridge this week. On Sunday I had to drop off number two son at his Trinity Hall accommodation. He’s just starting a four year engineering course. The following day I was back, dropping off number one son for the fourth year of his engineering course at Clare College. I had to rush home on the Monday but the Sunday trip was more relaxed. I had a good look round all three of my family colleges and came up with three dash and splash drawings. It’s only today, three days after the dashing, that I’m actually splashing.
Trinity Hall was actually the third college I visited, but the first whose painting I completed today. I came up with this drawing of the WongAvery Music Gallery, a brand new music room in the middle of one of the courts and with a grand piano and (I think) some seating for performances.
I must admit it’s not my greatest drawing – you can see out on the right where I started off making the building too wide. I was getting a bit jaded at this point, maybe because the architecture in these colleges is so complex.
And for colours, the iPad picked these three:
Here’s how the three colours looked on a bit of cold pressed watercolour paper:
You know, I really had high hopes that these colours would work after seeing that swatch. But they didn’t. I’m sure it’s this hot pressed paper that I’m using. The colours don’t soak into it or mix together. They just sit on the top.
I do have to take most of the blame for this one being a flop but I need to think seriously about switching to cold pressed paper for these dash & splashes, even if the pens would prefer hot pressed.
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