Waiting for Bedtime.... and a couple of practice pieces

You all know how much I like experimenting with my watercolour, so I tried a couple of different exercises, one from a magazine and one from a friend's painting.

Once these practice pieces were done, I created my own painting.
This is it:

Waiting for Bedtime

the two practice pieces are these:

lamb

bridge

As you can see, the practice pieces bear no resemblance to the painting I wished to paint. Sometimes that happens. I need to paint to get my confidence in what I want to do, going. So any painting works.
Rather than me thinking overly about what to paint for practice, I will look up "how to" paintings. I'm not overly fussed on the outcome, it's the practising which is important.
Practice is always important - and I'm sure that both my wildlife and river paintings, when I make them, will be all the better for these practice pieces.

Eighteen

Every week, I go to an art class.
Its the type of class which is more like a club, in that you can bring your own thing to work on, or you can follow along with the tutor on his demo.

I usually take my own thing and go my own way.
The class runs for two hours. I like to do something that can be completed in the time slot, saving the more detailed work for home.

This painting was completed in just under two hours.

Eighteen

11x8

Saunders Waterford 140lb Rough.