Pintar Rapido London 2017

Warm thanks to Roger and his team for organising another wonderful painting competition on 29th July in London! Great spirits all round despite the rain.

It turned out to be a glorious morning followed by downpours. Had decided to limit aspirations to a drawing rather than a painting, partly as moving in this direction anyway- towards less is more, and partly as rapid changes in sun/ humidity / rain complicate watercolour painting even more than the everpresent myriad influences (paper weight and surface texture; angle; amount of surface and deep moisture; saturation of paint) . Chose a side view of the local church, attracted by the strong dark/light contrasts in the horizontals and verticals . That said , one of the prize winners used rain drops to great effect in a watercolour of the Serpentine!

Aaron of Johnsons Picture Framers kindly suggested a dark grey mount, plain ash frame and framed it at high speed just in time to be hung at Chelsea Town Hall for the exhibition next day.