#Aberaeron #boats Getting to grips with Golden Ochre – in oil and watercolour!
I keep the same colour’s in both my palettes – makes things simpler. I have Marc Dalessio’s blogging to thank – he’s has lots of sound advice about mixing greens.
Aberaeron
#Aberaeron #boats #Wales
The boats are all safely out of the harbour for the winter months in Aberaeron, Ceredigion. I’m not a sailor in anyway, or a marine artist – I just like the shape of boats. This is a 2 page drawing, image aprox 142cm X 47cm. It’s very hard to take a ‘non grey’ photograph …
#Aberaeron #Wales Am I the only person doing the same thing lots of times?
Reworking an oil plein air sketch on cardboard, of the beach and harbour wall in Aberaeron, West Wales, on to board. The view from a similar spot. Isn’t it odd how flat a photo makes everything look? And how lovely and sunny it was – it was actually a very cold morning indeed! …
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Today’s Open Studio project…. #Wales
Working from watercolour into oil.
#watercolour @hantsopenstudios Using my watercolour to mix my oil colours in the studio on this rainy day.
I made a very quick colour sketch of the sun going down and hitting the Georgian buildings in Aberaeron. Now I’m seeing what I can do with it in oil.
#Aberaeron #Wales riverside morning sketch.
Had a good start to the day here in the sunny Aberaeron by the riverside. Starting to prepare for a later autumn exhibition.
Beach stones on a slate windowsill- Aberaeron, West Wales.
I had the chance to make two sketch book sketches. It was a warm sunny day but the sun made a great deal of progress between the two drawings, and the shadows moved considerably. The slate windowsill is a complex purple colour. I had a lovely comment about this which I replied to, but …
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