30x30 Direct Watercolour Challenge 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022

30x30 Direct Watercolour Challenge 2018

Direct Watercolour means exactly what it says on the tin. You paint direct onto your paper, without drawing out the design first. Every June the challenge is to paint 30 direct watercolours within the 30 says of June. I've completed the challenge several times, the first being 2018. On this first time I did actually paint more than 30. A case of quantity over quality. Compare this set with the 2022 set at the end. 
































30x30 Direct Watercolour Challenge 2019

































30x30 Direct Watercolour Challenge 2021

I didn't take the challenge in 2020. Here's the 2021 paintings































 30x30 Direct Watercolour Challenge 2022

Here's the 2022 paintings. One of the reasons why I do the challenge is to try to get better at watercolours. Not all of the 2022 paintings were successful, but I personally think that they are a better set of paintings than 2021s, which are in their turn a better set than 2019 (I didn't undertake the challenge in 2020). See what you think. 

1) Abandoned Railway Station


2) Shaken, not shtirred



3) Copy of a Pat Katz Original

4) Toulouse Lautrec

5) Margam Castle, Port Talbot

6) Horse racing

7) Caernarvon Castle SOLD

8) Long John Silver

9) Seaside Ice Cream

Copy of Carme Megam Prat original collage of Charlie Chaplin

11) Lighthouse

12) Copy of Alain Bedard Painting

13) Old Scottish Fisherman

14) Tower Bridge in the fog

15) Mornington Crescent Tube Station

16) The Lowdown on the Showdown after the Hoe Down

17) Swansea Bay tram SOLD

18) Metropolitan Railway Train at Ealing Broadway Station

19) Hippo SOLD

20) Puffin Billy

21) Menai Bridge

22) Selfie

23) The Queen

24) Rob Roy


25) Practice at Goodwood SOLD

26) The Waverley

27) Port Talbot Plaza cinema c. 1990
SOLD

28) Sir Elton John

29) Windmill

30) Mumbles tram at Southend tram stop


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