Step 1 Pencil sketch, as you can see I still have trouble holding back and not drawing all the details at this stage.

Step 2 pen outlines on top of the pencil for more definition as you can see the pencil has been rubbed out. It all depends at what stage I remember to take the photo.

Just looking at this photo it would make a good template for kids to colour in, I’ll have to remember to scan it into the computer in next time.

This was definitely the most fun watercolour that I have painted so far.

I loaded up the brush with too much when I was painting the sirens and tried to whip them off with a paper towel. Funny thing is the result was actually very interesting, and gave a sense of the fire truck flying along at speed.

As they say, it’s a happy accident.

So once again I only photographed the final image so can’t show you the other progress shots.

Step 4 Tombo brush pens for tone and soften things down a little.

Step 5 Fine liner pen work

Step 6 Fine Liner detailed pen work, since I put too much pen work in the step 2 there wasn’t an awful lot to do.

Hopefully you like my new style of painting, don’t worry I’ll still be going back to my fine detail gouache work, but not for the next 8 blogs.