From the sublime - 30x30 Watercolour Challenge 1) Rock Lobster

Right, well after a quartet of acrylic paintings, each of which took much more than 10 hours, this month we have a little light relief in the shape of the 30x30 watercolour challenge. I participated successfully last year - basically it involves producing 30 direct watercolour paintings during the month of June. Some people do try to do one each day, but it's not essential. If you wanted, you could paint all 30 on the 30th - you'd have to go like the clappers, but it's theoretically possible. So I never got my act together yesterday, but now, today, it took me about 30 to 40 minutes to make this wee rock lobster. A direct watercolour, to be precise, is one where you sketch with the paint itself - you don't make a preliminary pencil sketch, you just paint your design straight onto the paper. Here you go:-