Red Barn Snow Scene

I had a break from landscape painting practice over Christmas but I'm getting back into it now. This was supposed to be for my December Watermedia challenge, but I've only just finished it. First time I've painted snow and it didn't go too badly.

More Landscape Sketches

More of my landscape practice sketches..

Watersoluble and dry Coloured Pencils

Watersoluble and Dry Coloured Pencils

Watercolour paints plus Watersoluble and Dry Coloured Pencils

Penhale Sands Sketches

Just realised I forgot to post these landscape sketches of Penhale Sands in Cornwall...

Lots of Landscape Sketching Practice

I've been continuing to practice my landscape sketching in water media as much as possible. Here are some of the better ones:

Landscape Sketches

I've been wanting to have a go at learning landscape techniques for a long while and I've finally started. I've been reading up and watching tutorials, and have started a practice sketchbook. I started out drawing with ink lines but I don't like the look of the ink lines so I've abandoned the ink pen and now I just do a quick light pencil sketch to map in the main shapes before adding colour with watercolour paint and watercolour pencils.

With initial ink pen sketches.

I definitely prefer without the ink lines.

So I'm finally on my way with my landscape learning journey. I'm keen to keep it loose and immediate,  not to tighten up and focus on detail (as I tend to with botanicals and wildlife). I think a lot of practice is going to be needed, but I'm really enjoying it, which is all that really matters.

Brown Hare

Finally finished this brown hare, which was actually supposed to be a tutorial project. Unfortunately the tutorial booklet turned out to be terrible - completely useless for guidance (so I won't mention the artist's name). I quickly stopped even trying to use it and just worked from the photo and the artist's original drawing. I'm pretty pleased with how it eventually turned out.

Blue Tits

I drew these sketches of blue tits a while ago but forgot to post them. I think they are slightly too fuzzy-looking in texture, but I'm happy with the colours.