Things are pretty quiet in this light industrial area, just up the road from the office, on a Saturday morning. Most places are closed but the service station, post office and bottle shop are open. From one spot in the carpark I can see all of them well enough to sketch. The bottle shop appears to be getting the most customers…
I started out trying Hydrus, the liquid watercolour made by Dr PH Martin. Not impressed. The colours are kinda “muddy” compared to the Daniel Smith tube colour I have been using so I returned to the tubes to finish them off. I guess I was hoping the Hydrus would be almost as bright and clear as the Radiant range made by the same company after seeing them in a video by Danny Gregory. The Radiants are brilliant but, sadly, not lightfast. That probably doesn’t matter so much in a sketchbook – but my sketchbook is practice, test ground and studies for paintings that are not in a sketchbook – so it does matter. Sigh.
Amazing how a cool video with a catchy tune can sell paint. 🙂
All pages are watercolour, Uniball Eye Micro and graphite in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon 8.5″ x 5.5″ sketchbook (which was balanced on the steering wheel of a VW Beetle).
