Red Flowers

Red Flowers

15 cm x 15 cm 

watercolour on Canson 200 gm paper

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After Charles Reid

24 cm x 20 cm watercolour

Section of a painting after Charles Reid

Original-Art-Under100.com

10 cm x 19 cm

I've just uploaded this and three other paintings onto 'original-art-under100.com'

http://original-art-under100.com/artist/steve-strode

Paint To Learn; After John Singer Sargent

I've decided to spend the next year getting to know watercolour as it's a medium I've had very little experience of so what better way to get acquainted.  I spent a year doing acrylic paintings of Liverpool, and a year doing oil still life, so time to give watercolour a bash and study the work of the masters like Sargent.

Watercolour Studies of Cornwall

Kynanve Cove 21cm x 14cm watercolour on 140lb paper
Cornish Lane 15cm x 15cm sketchbook

Cornwall Painting

21cm x 21cm watercolour















I'm pining away for the rugged coast of Cornwall and playing with watercolour. I'm painting small pictures of one of my favourite places, the almost prehistoric Kynance Cove.

Liverpool painting No.111. Earle Road

21cm x 14cm watercolour

Liverpool painting No. 82. Castle Street

Watercolour 21cm x 14cm.

Castle Street would have led down to Liverpool castle on the site of the Queen Victoria memorial in Derby Square. It is one of the seven original streets of Liverpool. By the 19th century it was home to the commercial quarter of Liverpool and has many fine buildings which were either banks or insurance headquarters. At its head standsLiverpool Town Hall.
Another one of Liverpools original seven streets.

http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/heritage/ancestry/people-and-places/liverpool-streets

Liverpool painting No. 81. Albert Dock and the Brocklebank

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Watercolour 21cm x 14cm

Brocklebank escorted the Royal Yacht Britannia into the Mersey and pushed and pulled countless liners, warships freighters and tankers around the docks.

Following retirement in 1989, she is now the only seagoing vessel owned by a UK national museum.

Brocklebank sails around Britain’s coast as a floating ambassador for Merseyside Maritime Museum.

She is the last operational example of a traditional tug built for the Mersey.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/04/27/veteran-mersey-tugboat-brocklebank-open-to-the-public-this-bank-holiday-100252-26323945/

For Painting Students On the Acrylic Course

Working in the style of Charled Reid, paintings by Steve Strode.

Painting classes have started again and it was suggested that painted examples could be added to supplement the lessons, so here goes for the first time, online lesson extensions. Good luck, see you next week.

For those of you wishing to work from home on the computer remember to blow up the image as large as possible

Working from the Charles Reid paintings which I have duplicated, and using the techniques we have covered, work the whole painting wet in wet. Reproduce either study.

Remember

Use acrylic paint diluted at least 3 to 1.
Paint the subject wet in wet.
Shadows are always connected to the subject, and act as an anchor.
Start with the darks and mid value colours leaving the whites till last.
Remember to step back from the painting and review it from at least 8ft or so.
Pure acrylic can be added at the end to regain whites and tint down any colour that is too strong.
Reserve these pure highlights and any splashes of colour until the final part of the painting, which is, adding accents.

For more Charles Reid works visit.

http://www.charlesreidart.com/

http://www.famous-artists-school.com/index.php/fas/charles_reid/

Liverpool painting No. 80. Brookland Road West.

Watercolour 21cm x 14cm

Liverpool painting No. 79. Lime Street.

Watercolour on paper 21cm x 14cm.

I was using watercolour for a change today, finished off with a little white acrylic. It really makes a difference to what you carry around and it's a lot lighter. I had a small hand held watercolour box, one pad, one brush and a small jar of water. I had to be in town all day with only an hour and a bit to spare so minimum fuss meant I could work at this one out doors and out of sight on the steps of St. George's Hall.