Welcome to my step by step diary of a commissioned painting!
This article is about my latest commission, of a rather interesting local village. I hope it gives you an insight into how a watercolour evolves. I also think you will be interested to learn more about the village of Lavenham, with it's ancient buildings and links to the USA during the second world war...
I am a working artist,and since I don't specialise in portraits, or those ever popular pencil sketches of Fido, or a breed that looks just like him... commissions are fairly rare for me. Generally I just paint stuff I like, and hope it sells, which sometimes it does.
So it is exciting to get a commission, and scary too, as there is no messing up, no try it and see.
My first ever commission came from a painting I had on display in my local french run cafe. The painting featured a calf, standing knee deep the in water of a local pond in front of a mill. but the lady who contacted me did not want anything bovine. "It's for my husband," she explained. "He doesn't like cows, he likes herons" "can you paint it with a heron?" Well it wasn't unreasonable, I re-painted the picture, popped the heron in, and everyone was happy.
Written By MicheleWebber
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