Tuesday, 16 June 2026

30x30 Direct Watercolour Chellenge *18 Prague Tram Revisited

A couple of days ago I posted showing comparisons between my depictions of trams throughout the challenges and my depictions of formula 1 cars throughout the challenges. This led on to the idea – wouldn’t it be fun to take some of the subjects that I painted in 2018 and paint them again now, for a comparison? I don’t know how many others I’ll do, but my latest painting, number 18, is a Prague tram, and I also painted one of these in 2018. Here’s today’s

And here’s 2018’s

I’m easily tempted to pull apart and criticise the 2018 picture, but I have to remember that I didn’t know any better. It shows at least that even then I could draw shapes pretty accurately with paint. But I had a long way to go to learn how to give different areas of light and shade to large blocks of colour. I had a lot to learn about using colour full stop.

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