The Artist Magazine

Building textures

PRACTICAL WATERCOLOUR

Over the years I have led painting holidays to some wonderful and delightful places and during that time I’ve come across many lovely old buildings in varying degrees of neglect and disrepair, just begging to be captured in paint. In this article I will focus on some of those lovely textures and show you how to get the best out of your watercolours.

The lovely Portuguese town of Tavira is awash with all manner of delightful buildings and last year I took a group there for a few

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