Direct Watercolour challenge 2025 - 23 and 24

23 Now, what with me being off work with a broken shoulder, it being the weekend shouldn’t make any great difference. However I always feel that I should be more productive during the challenge at the weekends, so on Saturday 21^st I set out to make another 2 pictures. Since I was already 2 ahead of schedule then this would put me 3 ahead. The first one shows London’s Crystal Palace just after the disastrous fire in 1936. The Crystal Palace was originally built in Hyde Park in London to house the 1851 Great Exhibition. After the exhibition the building was bought by a group of businessmen and transported to Sydenham in South London where it was rebuilt as part of a large scale Victorian tourist attraction. In 1936 a devastating fire consumed the building. What was left after the fire was irreparable and demolition followed, When I invent my time machine the first visit will be to the medieval London Bridge and the second will be to the Crystal Palace.

24  Cards on the table, this is not an original work. It’s a copy of a painting of Budapest I found on the internet. I found it on Reddit, but all I could find out about the artist was the artist’s username, Matway. Sometimes you can learn a lot from trying to reproduce another artist’s work and I think that this was one of those times. Now, when I can produce something like this without having to copy anyone else’s, then I’ll know I’m getting somewhere.