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Paint LIKE RAVILIOUS

David's materials

Watercolours Payne’s Grey, Phthalo Blue, Forest Green, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Lemon Yellow, Vermilion and Chinese White

Brushes Round brushes, sizes 2, 4, 8 and 12; short flat brush, 3/4”

Paper Cold-pressed 300gsm watercolour paper

3H pencil

Mixing palette

Water pot

Scalpel

1 Examine the source

From the rural idylls of his early years to his wartime, it was still the “dot and speck and dash and dab” (as his biographer, James Russell, called it) of the wood engraving that informed his work.

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