I started this one yesterday on location and then discovered that I needed a proper brush to finish it and not just a waterbrush, so I finished it at home today. The flowers are squills, which have a dreadful name in English but they are magnificent flowers and the heralds of autumn.

This was drawn using a very limited and somewhat unusual palette – the Roman Szmal Aquarius mini watercolour set for urban sketchers. I purchased it and the 50th anniversary special edition Caran d’Ache Neocolor II Lush set at the Urban Sketchers Poznan Symposium‘s art market. It was a real challenge to work with a set that didn’t include any of the colours that I’m used to using, and combine it with a medium (Neocolors II) that I’ve only used once or twice before. I like the results enough to challenge myself to create more of these in the future.

This is what was done on location: