Watercolour by the canal

Lunchbreak sketching by the canal today. I bought Chinese take-away and found myself a spot on the steps by Vadestedet.





The napkin doubled as a wipe for my waterbrush :)



Doing a complex scene like this one without any preliminary sketching or under-drawing was maybe a bit much, but I'm sticking to using just paint directly on the paper (rather than colouring in sketches) as the best means to familiarise myself with this new medium.


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I had to scan the spread in two gos, as the horizontal format is too wide for the scanner bed. Here is a view of each page in the spread:





It took a long time to paint this and in the end I ran out of time. As you can see there is a ghost pole in the water which I didn't have time to finish.