Showing posts with label watercolour kit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolour kit. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Watercolour kit

These are Turner's watercolours, on display in Margate ( a skilful and probably illegal photo). What a starting point....In Oropesa, Spain, last month I bought my own watercolour kit, partly inspired by the low euro. It's the most basic of paintboxes but the cover makes a brilliant palette.
The objective of course is to sit down like Turner and dash off impressions. Not as easy as all that, but no harm in having a go.
















Reading and watching

  • Foot by Foot to Santiago de Compostela/Judy Foot
  • The Testament of Mary with Fiona Shaw at the Barbican
  • The Testament of Mary/Colm Toibin
  • Schwanengesang/Schubert - Tony Spence
  • Journals/Robert Falcon Scott
  • Fugitive Pieces/Ann Michaels
  • Unless/Carol Shields
  • Faust/Royal Opera House
  • The Art of Travel/Alain de Botton
  • Mad Men Series 6
  • A Week at The Airport/Alain de Botton
  • The Railway Man/Eric Lomax
  • Bright Lights, Big City/Jay McInerney
  • Stones of Venice/John Ruskin
  • The Sea, the Sea/Iris Murdoch
  • Childe Harold/Lord Byron
  • All The Pretty Horses/Cormac McCarthy
  • Extreme Rambling/Mark Thomas
  • Story of my Life/Jay McInerney
  • Venice Observed/Mary McCarthy