My sketchbook process, translating my sketches to a finished painting

In this video I develop my urban sketches into watercolour thumbnails images to help evaluate colour and composition working on 4 images at once! The sketches were drawn as urban sketches in my Lockdown sketch book on a visit to Saundersfoot, Wales. The thumbnail paintings are approximately 2*3 inches in size and are offcuts of random watercolour paper. I use a split primary palette of warm and cool colours – Permanent Rose, Windsor Red, Ultramarine Blue, Cobolt Blue, Quinacridone Gold, Windsor Yellow.

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Part of the Broadcasting team at Hospital Radio Reading and the anchor for the Saturday Night Crew

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