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It's Lois here today, join me for an experimental session trying to capture the bleak beauty of a desolate frozen lake, an impressionistic loose watercolour painting using the wet in wet method and really simplifying the scene to create the suggestions rather than the detail, and focusing on a range of tonal values and soft and hard edges to create the suggestion of aerial perspective and distance. This sort of experiment is a wonderful way to loosen up, take the pressure off yourself and have fun, and the results can be enjoyed in their own right, or like this one, used as a starting point to refine further for a finished painting at some point.

Materials: Millford 140lb/300gsm cold pressed watercolour paper, 11" by 15"/28cms x 38cms. It is taped to my board and my board is at an angle of about 45 degrees, or flat, or I can tip and tilt it to get the water to flow. I use a flexible plastic store card to apply and etch the paint, and various brushes as shown in the demo, but use any similar ones you have. My colours today are limited to 4: raw and burnt sienna, sepia and indigo.
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