Magic of Watercolour?
A secret ingredient? Look closer.
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We love, watercolours.
Happy colors. Objects we can define.
And yet, watercolours…. so often, seem to escape our mastery.
The More, we ‘try,’ the more muddled they become.
Watercolour Mastery
I’d love to introduce you to Blamire Young. He is the true magician of watercolour!
Young, an English – Australian was born 1862 and died 1935. He had been meant to become part of the clergy, but chose to study mathematics at Cambridge instead. Later, travelling to New South Wales, Australia to become the mathematics master at Katoomba College. Young was busy. Busy painting in the bush, painting in the studio. He painted, and just didn’t stop. I like that!
Blamire, has been (after Fred Williams and John Olsen) one of my all time, icons.
His love of the medium, of the brush, his enthusiasm for the…
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