Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

Lymington, Hampshire

Landscape Watercolour of Lymington, 15" x 11"

A pretty, Georgian market town, Lymington is situated on the southern edge of the New Forest, between Southampton and Bournemouth and at the western end of the Solent.  Apart from the placement of the buildings, I 'invented' the boat, car and people.  My source photo I took had little interest and the painting needed a little action.  The shadow on the left was very dark pigment and some water dropped in to make it less boring hopefully.  I also simplified the background - there was far too much detail of windows and structures on the buildings.

 

 

Road towards the Citadel, Alexandria

Landscape Watercolour of Alexandria, 15" x 11"

An anonymous building in Alexandria shortly before the citadel, and a liberal use of yellow ochre and deep shadows.  Stages for this painting were 1) sky wash, leading to 2) mid and foreground wash with a little cobalt blue towards the bottom.  3) After drying I start with the side gate and the shadows of the buildings.  4) Last are the figures painted in while the shadows were still wet.

 

Monastiraki Athens

Landscape Watercolour of Athens, 15" x 11".

Monastiraki was the site of one of the largest monasteries in Athens.  So little was left of the complex -  and only this little church remains, hence it's name 'monastiraki' or 'little monastery'.  The area around the square here has many tourist souvenir shops and traditional Greek Kebap Restaurants.  I very rarely go back to paintings to rework them, but the yellow taxi was an afterthought (there were tow many plain cars, so I washed over one with a Cad Yellow bit of paint).

On Saunders Waterford Rough Paper, 140 lbs.

 

Ridgewood Community Centre Chipping Sodbury 3

Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11"

The rear entrance to Ridgewood Community Centre in Chipping Sodbury, home to my local art club up there on the first floor.  Not an obvious choice maybe for a sketch, being a fairly ordinary building with an older part of the left and the newer bit on the right.  I took the liberty of reducing the height of the building in order to accommodate the larger foreground car park (sorry Ridgewood).

 

Various Holiday Sketches from 2012

I don't often paint on holiday, but here's a few from last year, and all from my 10" x 7" sketchbook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tias Street Corner, Lanzarote

Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11"

Tias is a small town in central Lanzarote, a bit off the tourist areas and a popular residency for local and ex pats.  I don't know the name of this street corner, but I took the liberty of changing a few minor architectural details and put in the two people and the car to balance the composition.  Pedestrian crossing went in first with a dry wash of light blue pigment just to dirty it up a bit before the cerulean blue sky and ultra marine/alizarin crimson was on the lower half (with a bit of yellow ochre on the lighter right hand side of the central building.

 

Sunday Market Teguise, Lanzarote

Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11"

The church tower of San Miguel serves as a useful landmark if you're ever lost at the busy Sunday market in the old capital town of Teguise. I can remember doing the foreground in one go with bold dry brush strokes, and leaving a bit of the paper below to enhance a bit of sunlight sparkle on the surface.

Saunders Waterford Rough Paper, 140 lbs.

 

Haria Lanzarote 2

Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11" 

The small town of Haria in northern Lanzarote, is in the centre of the Valley of the Palms - a wide green valley dotted with random Canary Island Date Palms, with extinct volcanoes around the perimeter.  A bit of dry brush strokes for the palm trunks is a quick way of understating them against the light.

 

Mykonos Port, Greece

Landscape Watercolour of Mykonos, Greece, 15" x 11"

Mykonos, a small Greek Island and part of the Cyclades group.  It's a very popular tourist destination I suppose because it's not too commercialised and has the iconic Aegean scenery of pretty villages and white washed houses.  My sketch is of the New Port, a few miles away from the main Mykonos town and an early part of the morning when the air is still.

 

Piraeus Port, Athens

Landscape Watercolour of Piraeus, 15" x 11"

Pireaus, the port for Athens and the largest port in Greece.  This is the main road / dual carriageway that runs around the perimeter and is punctuated by at least two dozen gates and ferries leading to all the Greek Islands and beyond.  The building is probably a government office but offers an interesting contrast to the shadows of the larger apartment blocks on the right.