Green Artist

As I sit here listening to the rain (again) I know where I wish I was instead!  This is a fairly typical cafe scene in Rennes who's architecture is based very much on Paris.

Here is a detail from the painting which is in watercolour and pen.

I found a photograph I had taken while in Hawkshead last autumn and thought it might make an attractive watercolour,  this is the finished result.  The unmounted size is 38 x 17 cm (15 x 7 inches in old money)

Detail from painting (I am afraid that I didn't take such a good photo of this painting).

These guys looked like they were having a lot of fun, irresistable to paint!  The unmounted size is 38 x 17 cm (15 x 7 inches in old money)

Detail from painting

There was an open air art show in the local Square a couple of weeks ago when the weather was very sunny and I decided to give it a go, it is my first try at a panoramic painting but I really like the the shape of the wider paper.

I took lots of reference photos and I took along a little sketchbook to get some tonal values and to help me select the most interesting aspects of the scene. 

Its a bit difficult to show the whole image properly because of the shape but here is a detail from it, the whole painting is 11 x 30 inches (28 x 76 cm) unmounted.