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Another damp winters day, but although I set out to paint the greyness- there was quite a lot of colour in the sky so I painted that instead.
Another damp winters day, but although I set out to paint the greyness- there was quite a lot of colour in the sky so I painted that instead.
Another at one of my local @nationaltrust properties. Met two really fun dogs called Truffle and Crumble. Woof!
#drawing #ink #PleinAir #trees Enjoying the late sun at one of my local National Trust properties yesterday. I seem to get attracted to trees quite often at the moment and the selection here with autumn colours was beautiful! I liked this tree especially, as the dark holes in its trunk echoed the dark windows on …
I’ve been updating my website and I came across this photo – small quick drawings made from the train, developed in oil paint on cereal box cardboard…..a surprisingly nice thing to paint onto. Of course – not a museum quality surface….but unlikely my work will need to last that long….and its free! Note to self …
55x75cms A drawing today back in Gunwarf Quays, Portsmouth. I’m loving the pollarded trees poking up into the sky. To make it more fun for myself I left my brushes at home and took a bag of oil painting brushes instead. Luckily they were clean but they were rather stiff!
Sometimes my work is very long in a ‘panoramic landscape direction’. The huge Scots Pine and Douglas Fir trees in Scotland, made for work that is very tall rather than very long. Spring is a little later there too; daffodils are still emerging 🙂
A return trip to the West Wood in the Forest of Bere near Wickham. It was dry! The whole time I was there painting. Masses of catkins are well on their way to maturity, in our out of kilter early UK spring. They are a bit too small to see in the photo.
‘Some sort of mixture’, showing some of the things that I have been plodding on with since I last posted – sometimes there’s no internet to post as I finish…or I’m in a rush…..or its too dark to photograph… I’ve been very grateful recently, to watch and follow both Marc Delassio and Peter Brown. …