AUTUMN WALK – WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

Having travelled back from my Life Drawing class and needing to set up an exhibition this week, I have not had time to paint anything new. Then as I was browsing through images on my camera I spotted one I had done a couple of weeks ago and not posted. I recall at the time I wasn’t too taken by it, but after a couple of weeks my antipathy has softened, so here it is.

I also should post it as I have a rule to post everything I do, whether I like it or not, which I pretty much follow, another reason to inflict this on you.

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WALK IN THE WOODS 2 – ACRYLIC PAINTING

Following my watercolour sketch – Walk in the Woods – I presented a week or so ago, I thought that I would develop it a little.  I liked the bands of light and shade created by the beeches in this wood on The Southdowns Way, close to the Cuckmere Valley. I mentioned in the blog that I took some pictures of passing walkers and I put in a couple with their sticks. I also kept the colours muted and resisted my urge to bang in some scarlet amongst the greens. Not sure whether it has the impact of my Dog Walkers where I succumbed to the scarlet urge – but maybe I got some of the calm I experienced on the day. Hope it calms you, also.

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A WALK IN THE WOODS – WATERCOLOUR SKETCH

I am on the south coast of England visiting friends and family for a few days and decided to take a walk along part of the South Downs Way which mainly strides grassy chalk uplands along the south coast. I started my walk in the Cuckmere valley estuary where the river winds across the broad valley and headed north but very quickly found myself in Westdean Country Park and quite dense forest. In the breaks in the trees the light broke through the canopy and there were some lovely areas of light and shade, particularly where the copper beech trees hung over the path. I might work this up into a painting. As I worked, a number of walkers passed and I snapped a few of them as they cut between the light and shade. Hopefully I will get to do a few more paintings in the coming days.

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MELLOW FRUITFULNESS – WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

A view of one of my apple trees in the autumn. I liked the mellow light coming through. Now it’s up on the screen  I think I might need to get a bit more texture in the left hand shadow. Leave it with me .

Merry Easter to everyone. At least we look like we have escaped the threatened snow I hope you all do – well, except for the skiers perhaps.

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MOVING TO BLUE – ACRYLIC PAINTING

Perhaps a little obvious, but I liked the notion of movement and the transition of colour on the diagonal with the yellows waving in from the space.

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INTO THE WOODS – WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

Another woodland painting and another repeat – I have put versions of this on the blog before. Certainly a little tighter than the previous blog of the woodland scene with no splattering; using brushes only, but I am pleased with the luminosity resulting. This is down to the layering of washes.

If I remember on my previous attempts I tried a loose approach which lost the constant tonal changes throughout the piece and resulted in taking out and scratching back. Slowly building up those changes this time seems to have paid off without it becoming overly fussy.

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THE WOOD ON DELPH LANE REVISITED – WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

I must admit that I was inspired by the texture I got on my previous painting that I put out on my last post  and so I decided to try and apply the splattering techniques to a scene I had done before in the hope that I would get a less staid outcome.

Well there is a lot of splatter on this but the outcome was less than I had hoped for. Perhaps I could have put the tree trunks and branches in whilst the paper was wet. I also did the splatter in two sections, one for the canopy leaves and one for the undergrowth. I also lost the translucency and the light coming through which I had in the earlier watercolour. So back to the drawing board – sorry about the pun.

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