Dynamic Watercolours

Jane Betteridge is an artist and qualified adult education tutor whose interest in painting stems from childhood, and whose inspiration is drawn from the landscape: from countryside to seaside. Known for her experimental, innovative approach to watercolours, Jane’s venturesome, investigative ways aim to nudge the use of the medium a little further, and allow her readers and students to take advantage of watercolour to produce free, lively works of art. Jane has demonstrated at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and was Artist in Residence at the BBC's Gardener's World Live event. She has written for several art magazines and streams live workshops for the SAA. Jane also holds regular workshops in her studios in St Ives in Cornwall and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, UK where she lives.

Contents

Introduction

Pure watercolour

Preparing the surface

Watercolour grounds

Crackle paste

Coarse watercolour grounds

Transparent watercolour grounds

Modelling pastes

Tissue paper

Metallic leaf

Wire brush

Printing into the surface

Shoreline project

Adding to your painting text

Inks

Spattering

Granulation medium

Using plastic food wrap

Using salt

Using gouache

Using contour relief

Using aquashine

Using aquapasto

Using bronzing powder

Using stencils

Gauze and thread

Woodland on paper project

Project

Ideas and inspiration

Exploring themes

Finding a focus

Pattern and colour

Your starting point

Just paint!

Index