Combined Art Socities 3 day Workshop with Herman Pekel

Combined Art Societies 3 days Workshop at Merroo 2016

3 days with Herman Pekel.  Herman is a great artist, I love his style be it landscapes or streetscaqpes. He is also an excellent  tutor and I have learned a great deal.  The 3 days are quite demanding, you literally paint till you drop from 9 in the morning till 16.00 and by Sunday the brain simply refuses to cooperate. 
6 paintings in 3 days.  My effort at one of the street scene was pretty awful, so I scraped the paint off and will redo it again at home.  Good practice.  
Herman paints the Melbourne street scenes with such an ease…. and they are absolutely stunning …. Maybe I should stick to landscapes 

Rainbow Lake_Kosciusko National Park NSW

Watercolour, Size 38 x 28 cms

Water Lillies Buds

 Watercolour

I implemented Heidi Willis technique on the next designs.  After umpteenth glazes this is the result.

Water lilly

Watercolour.... which demanded lots of patience, glaze upon glaze.... 
I did a workshop with Heidi Willis,  her beautiful true to life flowers are simply stunning & the thought was that this could encourage me to pick up a brush again.  In a way it did.  Now I am trying to use "what I've learnt", her technique in other designs...however this style of painting is extremely time consuming and really not for the impatient me ... however am giving it a go - my attempts will be uploaded sometimes, when I finished the umpteenth glaze.

Glorious Autumn

Glorious Autumn

Waterecolour 28 x 38 cms

Sunflowers

Still Life, Watercolour Size 38 x 28 cms

Vodnik (Water Sprite)

Vodnik na Vyhlidce  (Wassergeist - Water Sprite)
Watercolour 28 x 38 cms
This was a wooden carved figure of a Water Sprite (Wassergeist) at a Pension I stayed at few years back in Czech Republic.  I always wanted to paint it... but it has proven extremely difficult, combined with the watercolour paper which lost its sizing and became a blotting paper... I struggled all the way.
The background changed I did not want to detract from the focal Pt of vodnik.
Vodnik is a mythology figure & is the "scary green creature" in the waters who pries on little children ... so the story goes....