Three more mini water colour paintings in my water colour sketch book.

Three more mini water colour paintings added to my water colour sketchbook. My sketch book has a total of 40 pages, so another 18 more to go. 

All three are done on different days. These small water colour paintings take anywhere between fifteen minutes to half an hour depending on how simple or how complicated it is. Everytime I do a different subject I come across some situation where in I have to apply some new technique to set things right. These small efforts help in big way. Every painting, be it small or big is a new learning lesson.

Three mini water colour paintings

( Part of my water colour sketch book )

A day spent in creating water colour paintings

After working for days in soft pastels, finally decided to do a few water colour paintings for my sketch book. ( 18th and 19th painting )

Selected  two different subjects. An apple as a still life painting, which I created without any reference. The second painting is from my reference photograph of KUNZUM PASS. ( Altitude 4,551 m ) from our Himachal holiday trip last year. We had gone on a tour of  LAHAUL and SPITI valley but could not cross further as the Glacier ahead had not melted and the weather was not favourable.  

The view at KUNZUM PASS was absolutely stunning with snow capped mountains, clouds above and its shadows falling on the mountain peaks below. We spent few hours soaking in the tranquil atmosphere. It was so very quiet and we were the only tourists around. Beauty of such places just cannot be described in few words. One has to be there to feel it all.

 Having done a mini painting I plan to do a bigger art work using a similar photograph and a better quality paper.

Two mini water colour paintings

An apple

and

KUNZUM PASS

Seascape and Landscape - mini water colour paintings by Manju Panchal

16th and 17th water colour painting ( 23 more to go )

Water colour sketchbook

created by Manju Panchal

My water colour sketch book as shown above has a total of 40 spirally bound sheets. ( You can find more informattion about this book in one of my earlier posts). As I continue my works in this book it gets more and more interesting. Most of the times I am just experimenting with full freedom and loose strokes of brushes, in an attempt to discover some new way of getting things right. Great learning experience too.

In the painting of the seascape as in the image below, I have added few figures, which are very faint and almost seem to disappear in the distance. The landscape painting is with reference to a rainy scene at Navi Mumbai where I had gone to visit a friend. From the balcony I could see the sky clearing up and the reflections on the water puddle. Many a times, while still engrossed in observing the scene ahead it so happens that I virtually start painting the whole picture in my mind. I start contemplating the steps I would go through to create the whole work. 

Two mini water colour paintings

A seascape and

A Landscape

More mini water colour paintings - added in my water colour sketchbook

14th and 15th mini water colour painting

Added more water colour paintings in my water colour sketch book. These paintings are sized 3.5" X 4.5" each. I enjoyed doing the small sailboat and realised that I messed up a bit on the seawaves in the foreground . However it is these small mistakes that happen all the time and are all part of a learning lesson. Next time I will try a different way of going about it. For the garlic clove too I have tried the wet on dry technique and done glazing too. On the whole it was fun doing these two paintings.  

Two mini water colour paintings

Sailboat

and

Garlic

Paints used for the above paintings are Camel water colour tubes.

Mini water colour paintings - two different landscapes

The 12th and 13th Mini water colour painting in my water colour sktetch book.

I created a small sketch book some time back using Indian hand made paper. You can know more about it in from one of my earlier posts. It has about forty small pages sized approx 4.5" X5" and as and when I get a little time free from my other work I create small water colour works, be it still life or landscapes. Each of these paintings takes about forty to forty five minutes.

The painting with mountains has been done from a reference photograph. For the lower painting I have used my imagination. I let the painting develop as I kept adding the colours. Initially I had planned a curved road but later as the painting progressed I created a simple river and in the end I added a few bushes on both sides.

I have used wet on wet technique in both the small paintings. Paints used are CAMEL artists colour tubes.

Two small water colour paintings

of landscapes

More mini water colour paintings by Manju Panchal

The 6th and 7th mini water colour painting in my Water Colour Sketchbook

1. A water colour landscape painting done from my reference photo of Lonavala visit.
2. A still life water colour painting of a single Tomato.

Both the paintings are in the spirally bound book, BUT I created a collage of both of them to get the feel of how it would look framed with mountboard.

Two mini water colour paintings

Lonavala landscape

Single Tomato

There are in all forty pages in the water colour sketch book created by me and I am enjoying the experience of doing different subjects. Moreover I do not have to worry about storage either. Each painting remains in the book itself and everytime I start something new I flip over the old ones and that itself is

very inspiring.

Mini Water colour paintings by Manju panchal

My 4th and 5th water colour painting in the water colour sketch book created by me. 

Continuing with my mini water colour paintings for my sketch book which has forty pages in it. I have already posted the image of the book in my earlier post. Basically designed the book for travel purpose as it is handy and convenient to carry around.

The subjects chosen this time are Ladakh landscape and Still life potato. Both are done using Camel artists water colour tubes. While painting the potato live, tried to capture the details. Both the paintings are in the spiral bound sketch book but for the purpose of posting , used the App PicCollage to create a mountboard effect around the images.

Ladakh landscape and

Single Potato

Two small water colour paintings

in my sketch book.

Planning a CHARCOAL WORKSHOP in the first week of August. 

Will be posting the details on the blog soon.