Two Dancers, Watercolour

One subject I keep coming back to is the human figure, and especially ballet dancers. I prefer capturing them in between performances rather than on stage because I find the formal shapes they make more interesting when the dancers are at rest.

Before I was ready to do the actual painting, I prepared by doing colour notes and small compositional and tonal thumbnail sketches, as well as some detailed pencil drawings. Watercolour needs a lot more preliminary work than other mediums, but then the actual painting stage is really fast, which I find very satisfying.

I painted this on Bockingford rough, 30cm x 40cm.

Two Dancers, Watercolour

Cafe Spitz, Basel

Watercolour, 30cm x 40cm

The green shutters of this elegant cafe harmonised with the colour of the passing tram

Mittlere Brücke