Thursday, January 06, 2011
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Monday, December 06, 2010
December, Hungerford, Berkshire
An unusual one for me. With 40 mins to wait for my neice, I thought I'd try a very quick 'town painting'. Got it all sketched out but really froze as there was snow about - I finished it back home - it seems to have too much detail. Never done cars before, interesting, they are full of reflections.
Very soon after I started painting a man arrived to enter the house right where I had set up the easel. "I have a watercolour painted with GIN inside" he told me, and explained that Edward Adrian Wilson had joined Robert Scott's team for the Antartic as 'expedition artist'. Apparently Wilson had used Navy forces gin (I thought they drank rum) to paint watercolours because water would have frozen!! Makes good sense, and very resourceful.
(About Wilson ..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Adrian_Wilson )
(About Wilson ..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Adrian_Wilson )
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Late afternoon Lavington Hill
Did this in September. A strange sun glowing through the veil of clouds. Oil sketch. 12 x 1cm approx.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
AUTUMN POPLARS
The poplars again, always looking splendid in Autumn. Painted this on a bigger format than my usual, Good to work larger and it didn't take much longer. Could be finished a little more to define the receding trees .....
Was just thinking, it interesting how ones work changes over time .....
Other views www.flickr.com/photos/apt_pics/2805804406/
and here www.flickr.com/photos/apt_pics/3958251724/
Oil on canvas 24" x 18
Was just thinking, it interesting how ones work changes over time .....
Other views www.flickr.com/photos/apt_pics/2805804406/
and here www.flickr.com/photos/apt_pics/3958251724/
Oil on canvas 24" x 18
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
OAK TREE
OAK TREE IN THE VALE OF PEWSEY |
The embankment of the main railway line from Paddington through to Westbury, cuts across the landscape and every now and then a blue coloured express passes by, but too swiftly to try to paint in. On te RH is the clump of trees on Wooborough hill, a familiar landmark in the area.
NB Just went to see this tree again with a view to painting it again, almost a year later - I was a bit shocked to see that they were bulldozing a large shallow depression next to it, so a big pile of mud and bare earth looking a bit messy. Hope they know what they are doing. Possibly they are making a lake,
Roundway Hills, Devizes
View of ROUNDWAY HILL |
A very recognisable landmark from all directions. The wide open aspect of this hill and colour somehow remind me of Africa particularly when nearer to it. The clouds were changing light patterns by the minute so it was a challenge to paint and set the light/shadow areas.
HOUSE BETWEEN THE POPLARS
The house between the 'Poplar Trees' The house between the 'Poplar Trees'. This small house is dwarfed by these trees, painted from the field space between them. There are trees behind me as well so it is well protected from the wind, although nothing but grass is growing there now. Maybe they had crops at one time but not in the last 10 years.
And some Bach ....
And some Bach ....
a'Beckett's Vinyard
'unfinished' sketches - a'Becketts Vinyard
Not many villages in the UK can boast of a local vinyard. This one it about 10 years old, and produces some fine wines.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
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