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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChrissyM" data-source="post: 1645078" data-attributes="member: 80563">Thank you Tim <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Continuing in my efforts to improve my watercolour technique, I have been doing lots and lots of tutorials. Some of them have taught me different ways to use a brush and others have just been good experience to see how the paint behaves.I was lucky enough to go to the Art show at the NEC last week so got to see quite a few demonstrations which is always useful....the one mediem that I never got to do anything with way back in my art class days was watercolour.I do know that the only way to get better with any medium is to practice....But, at the end of practicing, eventually it is good to have a go at something back in your own style. Last week my OH took a lovely photo of a Robin amongst a wild rose bush, so yesterday trying to use all the things I had learned, I had a go at painting it.[ATTACH]228269[/ATTACH]I think that this is the nearest I have got so far to achieving with watercolour what I set out in my head for it to look like. I am not sure if that makes any kind of sense but I know what I mean.  Even better it seems to be relatively blotch free..o<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I can see some dodgy bits that I need to practice but, hey ho, it is a slight improvement.</blockquote>

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