LEARNING OBJECTIVES
You will need
Surface
- Arches Hot-pressed (satin) watercolour paper (or similar good quality smooth surfaced paper) 7×13in. (18×33cm)
Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencils
- Seecoloursright
Miscellaneous
- B pencil for initial drawing
- A good sharp pencil sharpener
- An emery board for refining some pencil points
- A medium putty rubber
- Cartridge paper and tracing paper, ora lightbox for transferring the drawing to the final sheet (optional)
COLOURS USED
I saw this old rowing boat (below left) propped up outside a restaurant when I visited Santorini, the famous volcanic Greek island. I was attracted by the patterns and colour variations that had developed over its weathered hull. I also thought it had a very pleasing form, with its rounded belly and the contrasting triangular shape of the bow,
