A really quick watercolour sketch.

watercolour sketch - A sleeping jack Russel terrier caught off guard.

I am still amazed every time I see this sketch.  I had previously tried watercolour a few times, using good quality paper dampened and stretched on a board, with fairly good brushes, but in spite of all that I made some right "pigs ears" of the jobs, I'll tell you.  I think I was just concentrating too much and trying to avoid (but falling into} the pitfalls that the books warned about.

This one is in a cheap sketchbook with plain cheap paper.  I lightly sketched the basic in pencil, (from a photograph) then I just went for it with an almost dry, 20mm bristle brush which gave the stripey effect.  I did a few practice sweeps on scrap paper until I had just the right amount of paint on the brush each time. Only when it was almost finished did I use a fine rigger watercolour brush to pick out a few details.

I have always meant to do more of this sort of sketching, but got carried away by my next fad, pen and ink.

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