Grey Street Newcastle, Summer Rain – Limited Edition Print

£65.00

This view of Grey Street, Newcastle taken from the base of Grey’s Monument is one perfectly suited to watercolour, the sky, heavy with rain clouds, the movement of the people huddled under brightly coloured umbrellas, all reflected in rain drenched pavements.

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Dimensions 30 × 21 cm
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Grey Street Summer Rain Watercolour Print | Limited Editions Prints of Newcastle  Scenes – Alan Reed

Grey Street Typical Newcastle Street Scene

This view of Grey Street, Summer Rain Newcastle is taken from the base of Grey’s Monument. It is perfectly suited to watercolour, the sky, heavy with rain clouds, the movement of the people huddled under brightly coloured umbrellas, all reflected in rain drenched pavements.

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Painting in Watercolour

Newcastle is a very busy city. When Painting Grey Street, Newcastle I find it great fun to bring life to the scene. I do this by adding in people for extra movement and interest, like this one of Grey Street Summer Rain. It’s even more fun painting Grey Street in winter. You have the extra challenge of resolving the reflections of the sky, buildings and figures in the wet pavement. Watercolour is the ideal medium for this. However you need to know the sequence of washes and how to build up the colour.

You will notice that the gentle yellow colour that you can see just above the distant buildings is actually running throughout the entire painting (apart from the snow lying on the rooftops) and is particularly evident in the pavement in the centre of the foreground. When the wash of yellow dried, I wet the sheet of paper and introduced a very subtle hint of Rose Madder in the sky and foreground before introducing the slate grey for the sky and reflections.

Paintings of Newcastle available from alanreed.com

You can see a number of limited edition prints of Newcastle’s Grey Street including  Grey Street, Saturday Morning which was featured on the BBC’s “Show me the Monet”.

Available in larger sizes as a giclee print, please Contact.