Iron Acton, UK, 15" x 11"
Composition - the more I look at this one, the more I question in my mind the purpose of the figure on the right. I think the right hand side is too loaded with stuff - the church, the car and the large figure. Maybe put the figure on the left, not so large, and have the shadows going across at an angle to connect, and not have the figure so obvious. Perhaps the next one...
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
St Foy la Grande, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
I tend to always paint around a figure and a car when doing a wash, even though in this case, some of the cars are in the shadows. Then when painting the cars, I try to get the right value for the body, and they while still damp, carefully blend with a brush into the surround and introduce some darker shadows below the car.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Posara, Italy, 15" x 11"
My 2nd Plein air painting at the recent workshop I ran at the 'Watermill in Posara'. Another plein air painting looking down the main street of the village and the church tower at the end. Good practice of perspective.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
Perigueux, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
I wanted a 'U' shape of darker values in this around the bottom half and up the sides, to frame a lighter area in the middle ground and background, then some darker verticals against that lighter area. Inject a few figures - light against dark, dark against light works in watercolour so well I think.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
Livorno, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Wednesday Night Sketch at my Art Society and topic given to the artists by the Chairman of the evening was "all our yesterdays". So you have 2 hours to complete a painting based on that subject without using any resource material (no doing a Google search now!). As I was in Livorno, nearly yesterday, I decided to do a sketch loosely based on the New Venice area - a bridge, distant building, moored boats.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
I was the painting Tutor recently at the Watermill in Posara, Tuscany, Italy. I did a couple of demos each day, so here's the first one, painted right outside the mill and looking up towards the hills to the North of Posara, the small hamlet where we were based for the week. Unusually on this one, I painted the sky and background hills last! Normally they're the first to go in, but this one I started painting the tops of the roofs first, down to the foreground. I think it worked. I wanted the soft edge of the sky against the hills and a hard edge of hills against rooftops.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
The iron arched bridge over the river Ebra. Quote tricky to do these multi-span bridges with the complexity of all the metalwork. It ended up being one of the simplest elements of the whole painting and a small bit of white paint on the arches hopefully gives the impression of the structure's curve.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
Iron Acton, UK, 15" x 11"
I took a few photos very quickly of a local village to me in the UK, Iron Acton, and this was an outcome of one of those photos. I liked the steps, a little light hitting the tops and the old stone wall. The shadows were going in the right direction as well.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
Iron Acton, UK, 15" x 11"
I took a few photos very quickly of a local village to me in the UK, Iron Acton, and this was an outcome of one of those photos. I liked the steps, a little light hitting the tops and the old stone wall. The shadows were going in the right direction as well.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms