Two ways to handle my favourite painting/drawing subjects - British Pubs.
The top one is the Three Horse Shoes in Headingley, done in coloured pencil, easy to work with, easy to correct when things go wrong, fascinating to overlay several times and watch the colours interact with each other - is a very precise format and can end up looking like an architects plan if not careful.
The bottom one is The Adelphi, one of Tetleys central Leeds major public houses, done in watercolour worked mainly wet-in-wet, that is the paint is painted onto a wet sheet of watercolour paper making it very unpredictable. Some correction can be done by lifting out some of the paint while still wet with a tissue or dry brush, or by waiting for the paint and paper to dry and painting over it - neither is very succesful as watercolour is by its nature transparent and what you have underneath will always show through, you get one, maybe two chances to get things right with watercolour and can often ruin a painting right at the end after ten or twelve hours work on it.
Guess which one I prefer to work with ?
Yup - the difficult one :)
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