Joe Dowden, Painting Holiday

To hone my watercolour painting skills, I am going on a painting holiday with a much admired watercolour artist, Joe Dowden.

I really love his work.  I discovered him from an instructional book I purchased when I was an architectural illustrator.  His spatter technique for foliage is something I really want to become accomplished at.

I have several practice sheets where I have worked on separate techniques from each section of a complete painting he demonstrates in his books and DVDs. I have many of them

Shown here is a pracitce sheet trying different greens and yellows and techniques for distant sunlit terrain.  Looks odd on its own. Fits really nicely with a sunlit tree laden landscape.

I  leave for the UK on Monday Oct 19 so I can tour around a little before I leave with his group to go to Croatia on the painting holiday.  I have a lot of preparation before I go so I may not post for a while, but I am hoping to post my progress on the painting holiday. I will only post things that are not too horrible so there is a possibility there will be no pictures.