My weekly watercolour students have been working away during the two Thursday sessions that I tutor at West Norfolk Arts Centre, Castle Rising.
After the view of Wells-next-the-sea which we started the term with we moved on to the Lake District with this study of a painting by the artist William Heaton Cooper, whose family still run a popular gallery in Grasmere.
There’s always lots to learn from studying the work of masters of watercolour, and with this painting we paid careful attention to how Heaton Cooper’s brushwork described the shape and form of the landscape. Realistic but impressionistic at the same time.