Mill sketch in watercolour

I started off drawing the scene out in pencil, sketching in the directional sides of the banks leading into the centre of interest which obviously is the mill and cottages.

More of the cottages are drawn in and you can see in the photograph of the scene (above) that the apex of the small cottage in front of the larger mill touches the gable end of the larger mill, this looks and feels insensitive. Here I have highered the mill so it doesn't touch the guttering so there is a gap which gives more of a feeling of spaciousness..

A mix of ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson and a touch of yellow ochre is used for the sky area and then I dried my brush and pulled out lights for the clouds. A yellow ochre and burnt umber has been used for the roofs.
 

A light cadmium red has been used for the buildings and chimney and they have been just roughly painting in for now.

A light yellow ochre is painted in for the lights and ultramarine blue and cadmium yellow for the greens of the banks. The reflections from the buildings were painted in using wet in wet painting leaving harder edges towards the foreground.
 

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