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This week we are going down to the beach (virtually of course!), and painting some seagulls, and their reflections in the water at low tide.

When life gives you lemons…. We paint them! This week I’m sharing my line drawing that formed the base of one of my large watercolours. The composition is part realist, part pattern, and we will paint a dark background to complement the vibrant yellow of the lemons.

This week we will be using the classic shape and form of feathers to refresh ourselves on colour theory and wet in wet paint mixing techniques, whilst achieving a very popular illustrative effect.

This week we will be painting some creamy white roses, in a coloured glass vase on a wooden table with background textiles. It looks simple but is deceptively complicated and may run over two weeks!

This week we will be having some fun with colour, using bright pigments to convey an illustrative style. I have created an street scene in a cartoon style where perspective, scale and colour are all distorted slightly to create an sense of altered reality where we can play with strong colours.

This week we have a street scene where the building materials are the same, so the colours are the same, and to give a sense of depth we will use tonal values and colour saturation to give the painting some light and dark areas.

This week we will be exploring tonal values and how they can help with creating depth and perspective in landscape painting.

This week we will be painting a deceptively simple still life, paying attention to shadows, highlights and creating the illusion of three dimensional objects.

This week we will explore the genre of domestic interior painting. Celebrating the compositional details to be found in the detailed depiction of a corner of our homes.