watercolour: Water Paper Paint

I really love Heather Smith Jones' work and just had to get her book "Water, Paper, Paint"! I was so excited when I got the it in the post last week! I have been drooling over the pages for days! Such a beautiful little book with lots of information about watercolour painting, brushes, paint etc. The book is full of interesting projects to do which allows you to explore your creativity! I love the fact that it's totally hands on learning!


Since my watercolour course has now finished, I'm going to complete a project from the book each week. I have started with Project 2 - working wet onto dry!


It's a very interesting little exercise... you may think painting coloured squares is easy but it really makes you think about placement, size, colours/hues, techniques and it's also really good practice in painting straight lines with watercolour too - a tricky, uncontrolable little beast at times!

time: around 8pm... just getting into it!

I got a little carried away on Saturday night... yes I was at home painting (and loving it) and I was up until 1am painting...ouch!! I had no idea what the time was as I was so engrossed in the project... I had to finish the first layer, which I think turned really well! The next step will be layer number two with stronger hues! I can't wait to do some more this week... it's just too much fun :)

time: around 1am... finished the first layer!
my eyes were a bit blurry and so is the photo :)

Heather Smith Jones has a little blog and a website of her wonderful work... very inspiring!!

9 comments:

  1. I'm so glad you're enjoying watercolor, your work looks great! And thank you Lamina for sharing your work and my book with others.

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  2. It's a gorgeous book. I have done the first exercise, with the circles, and am moving on to this one with the squares next. I think your first layer looks great!

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  3. Looks like a great book, and I can totally understand you staying up late to finish - art is addictive!

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  4. You've definitely got the water colour bug!

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  5. Our work looks great, love the soft colors! and love the book two, have one to call my own too;)

    JenMuna

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  7. Ooh! I want this book so bad. Your paintings are so smooth and free of watermarks - I'm impressed every time. I've been lately very frustrated with watercolors and I'm taking a break with the GYPO course and diving into acrylics instead (as you probably know). I think that is better for us beginners to start with, since it's so easy to mess up a watercolor painting!

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  8. Don't you love this book!!!!
    I just bought it and am dying to start the exercises!!!

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  9. Ooh, I'm currently waiting for this book to arrive in my letterbox. It looks great. Thanks for sharing your projects.
    Have a gorgeous day.

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