Stone Walls

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Watercolour on Paper
16cm x 22.5cm (6.25" x 8.75")

This picture was hard work. My initial washes were a disaster. I went too dark, too early and ended up with a horrible mahogany coloured mess. I nearly abandoned, but I managed to lift a lot of the colour and was left with an interesting base layer. I then modelled each of the stones individually – each one becoming a little painting in its own right. 

Stone Walls is the last topic in the Earth Textures chapter from Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice. I'm looking forward to the next one – Skies and Weather.