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Elvet Bridge - Durham
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There are a number of bridges still standing in Britain that have buildings and structures on them, and this one, the Elvet Bridge in Durham is one of them. Obviously I wanted to paint the bridge, which I love, as well as I could, but what I was most interested in was getting the reflections in the water, and on this score at least I'm quite happy with what I achieved. This was a one session painting. I dampened the whole piece of paper, then quickly applied the sky - mostly cerulean blue - then the river - a mixture of cerulean and cobalt, just to make it slightly deeper in colour than the sky. While the river blue was still wet I started applying grey, brown and green reflections, and I'm pleased with the way they diffused into the water, although I did apply some more reflections when it had dried.
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