cottage by a river

By Robert Meredith -
This was demonstrated in my Llanharan class a few weeks ago. Based on my first attempt for my task notes. I love the impressionistic approach. I loved using burnt sienna as a base colour and then used ink to draw the scene. I have learnt this approach helps make the colours zing, especially white. Again more like this in the future.

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