I have decided to do another Wood Street panoramic. This time however I’m doing the odd number side. I have decided to do it a bit differently to my last one in that rather than do a series of individual pictures which are scanned and then stitched together, I’m going to work on a single large of paper. This approach does present some challenges however. Single sheets of watercolour paper that are sold are not sufficiently wide enough so it has meant that I’ve had to cut a length from a roll. A task that sounds easier than it turned out to be. I then needed to stretch the sheet before painting which involved soaking it in the bath of water and taping it to a board and letting it dry. Stretching is required to reduce the amount of buckling in the paper when I do the wash for the background and to flatten the paper as it has come off a roll it has tendency to remain curved. So this is where I’m at now with the outlines of all the buildings in pen complete ready to start adding the paint.
