Original artwork description:

Upwey valley, Dorset
A surprising scene,
The middle of summer,
Peach and purple sunset sky,
A cluster of poppies on the bank of the hill,
A small woodland behind.

Words and feelings of a landscape I often see on my drive to the coast of Dorset on the outskirts of Weymouth.
Original impressionist watercolour on extra rough textured watercolour paper bockingford 425gsm 200lb.
I created this watercolour for my YouTube channel showing many art demos. It was a painting I painted gradually. I used wet on wet techniques for the background washes and then applied the poppies by pressing or dropping the paint on, carefully the detail evolved by pressing more paint on around the poppies using a Chinese brush. The summer bushy trees were applied with a sable hair brush using an anti clockwise and clockwise brush movement on wet paper.

Materials used:

Extra rough textured watercolour paper bockingford 425gsm 200lb, peobeo watercolours, sable hair brush, Chinese brush, filbert, Chinese hake,

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