Lavender hues
I was inspired by the testing paper from my post yesterday Crocosmia and Lavender, it had a multitude of paint strokes in purple and blue lavender hues. There is something quite magical about a purple and pink sky, and the way a city looks at sunset or in the early morning light.
I started off this piece by building up strokes of purple and blue watercolours. I tried to match the colours to the purple and blue hues of the lavender I had picked from my garden. I liked the idea of using a natural colour palette to paint a cityscape, taking my colour inspiration from nature to paint an urban scene!
I allowed some of the paint layers to dry before adding more fine strokes of colour, building up the intensity of the line.
For the final touch and definition I added more lines and hatching using black and white drawing pens.