Posts Tagged ‘plein air oil painting’
Gardening
It was a dull day yesterday so decided to do a quick sketch in the garden rather than go out. Good practise in sorting out closely spaced tones. The warm colour in the foreground is burnt grass from the heatwave a few weeks ago. I have been thinking whether I should varnish my paintings. It…
Read MorePainting in Wells
Last Sunday spend a day in Wells-Next-Sea on the Norfolk Coast in the company of two watercolourists. Enjoyable day and came back with loads of sketches and paintings to work up into larger paintings over the winter. I got there at 7 just as the sun was coming up and blocked the first one in,see…
Read MoreKeeping it Local
Hi, not posted for a while as been either working or painting. Having seen my paintings hung at recent exhibition I realise that I need to go for more adventurous compositions and complex subjects. Need to mix things up a bit to maintain interest when there are over 50 paintings on show. That said I…
Read MorePainting in the Fens
Last Sunday I went out painting with Julie Baker who is a keen painter of the Fens with its huge skies. I chose a distant view of the river going round behind dark distant trees. Just as important for me was that it was out the wind. I was very pleased with the over all…
Read MoreNorfolk Painting Trip
Couple of weeks ago I managed a 3 day trip to Norfolk. Pleased with the results and came back with loads of sketches and photos to work on over the winter as well as a dozen or so “almost completed ” oil paintings. I have completed and framed some of the pics already. I have…
Read MoreCould this be the first day of summer?
Great weather over the long weekend – almost to blue for painting! Managed to find some more interesting views of Holywell with better foregrounds and shadows. With a limited tidying up in the studios these will be OK – that is if you like green!
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