Rob Dudley Demonstration 3rd Oct 2013

A few observations on the watercolour demonstration by Rob Dudley.
He works mainly in the studio using photos and sketches.
Sketches with a pen.
Stretched Bockingford paper is his preferred medium.
Starts as loose as possible laying washes on a wet surface.
Prefers bright colours like the quinacridone group.
Gave the example of the unclosed circle i.e. let the brain complete the picture.
Good tip about using a normal hog brush splayed out and set with masking fluid.

I took the last tip a bit further and came up with the following. The advantage of this method is you can wash the brush aftter use and it still retains it's shape.

brush, tile, superglue

squash brush as shown

weigh down in position (or hust hold) then squirt some glue round the ferrule

when dry it should pull off the tile and look like this

use it to deposit masking fluid in random pattern to simulate light on water