Unfinished... or maybe finished painting from Joy Truscott, we will just have to wait and see ...
Plettenberg Bay Workshop: Module 3 is all about painting market scenes. This is such a fabulous subject as it presents an endless array of opportunities to show shapes, colours, textures and vibrancy.
Watch as the artists play for the next four weeks as we enjoy the flow and serendipity of water colour.
Watch as the artists play for the next four weeks as we enjoy the flow and serendipity of water colour.
Let's see the end products first and then scroll down and see how each artist developed their painting.
 June Rissik - beginning painting |  June Rissik completed her painting with some pastels - a fun way to mix media. |
 From the early beginning to .... |  Terry du Plessis brought wonderful colour to her end result |
 Dawn's two completed paintings - well done! |  Dawn Pearce enchanting result |
 Marie started here and took a wonderful journey into more vibrant and exciting washes |  Marie Schwellnus has such a delicate style and it came through in this result |
Tony Millerd had a vision from the beginning and executed this painting like the professional he is.
June, Joy, Tony, Terry, Dawn and Marie (clockwise from the top). We missed Megan and Trish on the last day.
Step One for Megan
 Step One for Trish |  Megan |
 Terry and Marie |  Step One for Terry |
 Step One for Marie |  Step One for June |
Step One for Tony. My photo of Tony and June came out blurry so sorry they are not shown this time.
For Tony's painting it was a challenge as the wet and flowing technique just couldn't work with the paper he had. Once it was wet it looked like (and behaved) like blotting paper and just absorbed the colour with no flow available. These are the challenges of water colour painting and also the challenges we have living in South Africa where we struggle to obtain decent paper - at a price we can afford!
The best thing to do with this is to work with the paper and paint almost like one would with acrylics - painting on bold shapes and colour. I think this will still be a great painting and it will be fun to see how it evolves.
The best thing to do with this is to work with the paper and paint almost like one would with acrylics - painting on bold shapes and colour. I think this will still be a great painting and it will be fun to see how it evolves.
Step One of Joy's dem painting. Watch this Space
Session 2 - More of Market Scenes
Marie and Tony getting ready for a day of painting happiness.
Dawn with her painting taking shape beautifully
 |  Starting to do some painting behind shapes - watch how this painting begins to emerge ... |
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| Session 2 was about adding transparent washes and beginning to add details by either painting behind or direct. This is a good time to pay attention to colour and shape. These paintings are coming along so well. |  |
Session 3: Market Scenes continues ...
 | Session three was all about learning to paint the people in market scenes. Our tendency to over paint and over state is so tempting so we had to find some clever ways to bypass the references that make us see in tired and old ways.  |
| Breaking down the body parts into simple shapes is a great way to create simple people forms to emerge with a lot less fuss. |  |
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