The choices are endless for subjects to paint from animals, landscapes or produce from the garden. Have you ever pulled a beetroot from your vegetable bed thinking: ‘This is beautiful? I wish that I could paint that!’ I certainly have, and I do.
It is also a lovely way of preserving your crop, on paper, a memory of it even after it has been eaten. It doesn’t have to become a masterpiece, or even be hung on the wall. These little paintings would make great additions to a gardening journal to look back on, in the dark winter months, when there is little to do in the garden or on the allotment.
You don’t have to be an experienced painter to do this. Not at all. And it takes very little equipment too. The beauty with watercolour is that it takes up very
