Under the Bridge, watercolour

After completing four commissioned portraits, I am now back painting landscapes.  The elegant arches of this bridge made an interesting composition and I  love the simple shape and the turquoise colour of the wooden boats you find mooring on the river Rhein.

Wettsteinbruecke, Basel

Mein letzter Aufenthalt in Basel bringt mir immer noch Inspiration zum Malen. Hier haben sich die eleganten Brückenbogen und das einfache blaugrüne Holzboot zu einer harmonischen Komposition ergänzt. Der Blick geht vom kleinbasaler Ufer hinüber zu Grossbasel.

Summer lake

This is a small man-made lake above Lenzerheide, which we came across on one of our walks last summer. I liked how the water changed colour from the near edge to the distant shore.

Watercolour, 30cm x 40cm

Basler Muenster watercolour

Watercolour, 31cm x 41 cm

I painted this with very few layers, using the direct painting method by placing washes next to each other.

Heidsee Watercolour

The Heidsee is situated in Lenzerheide, where I spent my summer holiday. Lenzerheide lies in a beautiful high mountain valley in Switzerland and is mostly popular with Swiss, German and Dutch tourists. The lake showed strong reflections that day, which I captured with my camera to paint from back home.

Watercolour of Heidsee, 30cm x 40cm

Regent's Canal Watercolour

This July, I visited the Regent's Canal with two sketcher friends to take in the area around Paddington Basin. Although living close to London, I had never been there before and enjoyed the holiday atmosphere of the place. We found it too difficult to sketch along the canal, as the path was quite narrow and busy, but we set up in Rembrandt Gardens, which borders the Paddington Basin. I spent the time drawing boats and the people relaxing in the park.

I took plenty of photos, too, to paint from at home, and these two watercolours came out of my sketching trip.

Two Boats, watercolour, 30cmx40cm

Paddington Basin, Watercolour, 30cmx40cm

Ludgate Hill

Ludgate Hill, watercolour (30cm x 40cm)

This painting is a result of my recent trip to London with Urban Sketchers London. I was sketching around the area of St Paul's but also took plenty of photos as reference material to paint this watercolour away from the subject.