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Here’s the latest month from my sketchbook

Huevember’s pressure to colour a picture per day has gone, but watercolour painting is so much fun I did a bunch more in December.

Back in NoHuevember I borrowed a set of watercolours from my wife. And, after trying them out to see what they look like on the paper (below) I did the chair above.

Though I have painted with water soluble paints at school, this is really the first time I have painted with watercolours, with lots of water. I was so encouraged by this result that I did that day’s huevember picture in the same style. That chair appears again, though its the purple that counts this time.

Since then I have been carrying those watercolours around with me most of the time and even when the huevember challenge was over, I still often find time to do a quick watercolour and ink sketch.

I missed a couple days in November and the crowd I was sharing with decided we should do Huevember. Now Inktober is well within my comfort zone: ink pictures are basically black and white. And if I use a grey brush pen then they’re still mainly monochrome. Taking on Inktober is just a way to commit to doing 31 of them. Practice! But Huevember is a different sort of challenge for me. I needed to learn how to use colour. Here is the resulting sketchbook:

What happened to the rest of my Inktober pictures? I started putting them up day by day. Then, I stopped, for whatever reason. Anyway I kept drawing and here is the rest of that sketchbook.