Tag: Burnt Sienna Light
Urban Sketches of People at the Cafe using a Limited Palette for Colour Harmony (Day 142)
Day 142 of sketching people in ink and watercolour. Experimenting with using a bright and a desaturated green from Manganese Blue Hue, to create some colour harmony in my cafe sketches.
Colour Triad of Burnt Sienna Light, Manganese Blue Hue, and Quin Gold
Experimenting with a new Colour Triad of Burnt Sienna Light, Manganese Blue Hue, and Quin Gold, to see if this will work for the Urban Sketcher’s Symposium in Toulouse in July.
Sketch on the Driving Range using a Colour Triad (Day 138)
Day 138 of sketching people in ink and watercolour, painted using a colour triad I’ve been exploring. As i watched MOH on the driving range, I took a photo, and then sketched the figure from the photo. But sketched the landscape from reality.
For the Urban Sketching Symposium in Toulouse – how to create colours you don’t have
Daniel Smith published their suggestions for painting Toulouse street scenes during the Urban Sketches Symposium. So I experimented with how to mix these from the colours I already have in my watercolour palette.
Liz Steel Watercolour Course – Lesson 2
Continuing with a new week from the 2026 run through of Liz Steel’s watercolour course by doing the swatching exercises for four of our favourite colour mixing combinations.
