Thursday 7 February 2019

Richard Crabtree - Line & Wash

Richard Crabtree

We were pleased to welcome Richard Crabtree to demonstrate working with line and wash. Richard holds regular classes and workshops in watercolour, oils and pastels, at Avoncroft Arts Centre, Bromsgrove. You can find more details on his website http://www.richardcrabtree-artist.co.uk





Richard began by demonstrating a range of marks possible with pens, markers and modified lollipop sticks. A cable fault prevented us from using our projector so we were glad that Richard could adapt to this and use bolder marks for much of his demonstration.





Richard produced three pictures: a squirrel, a railways scene and a rose. Images showing the stages for all three demonstration pieces follow.






Showing the perspective in the railway scene







For the rose he painted the petals and leaves with broad brush strokes
and then added line when the paint had dried.





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