Pisa, Italy, 15" x 11"
Just down from the Tower of Pisa, a wide street and a lovely shadow across a building at the back of a square. I have videoed this but undecided whether to publish or not. I think the theme would have been something like how to make dominant shadows a bit more interesting rather than a big dark area. Well please let me know if you think it would make a worthy YouTube video!
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms
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Here's my latest watercolour demo up on my YouTube Channel (well over 30 videos on there now - all different subjects, and all watercolour of course). This time I feature a bit of splattering with clear water into a damp wash....
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Bodmin, Cornwall, 15" x 11"
A painting based on an old photo of mine taken on a very brief trip through Bodmin. This is Fore Street a main shopping street for the town. An exercise in connecting the various key objects in the painting, the figures, shadows, cars, one side of the street to the other. Also an exercise in values with those dark shadows and the light hitting the left side of the street. With the shadows I try to vary the tones also in that area.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms.
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Venice, Italy, 22" x 15".
The Calle Larga and looking at the State Archive building with those horizontal lines. This was a plein air demo to my group at the recent Painting Holiday I ran in Venice. This was an early morning painting and not too many crowds to contend with. Another nice spot in this square is to go on the other side of the bridge and do a contra jour scene looking up the canal. I took a photo so I might do that sometime!
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Laycock village, UK, 15" x 11"
Another plein air done on the same day I did my recent YouTube video with the bodycam strapped to my chest. Well this was an afternoon painting and the bodycam had been surgically removed so a I had a bit more freedom again. This is the end of East Street if anyone knows this pretty village and a view of the Tythe Barn.
Painted on Saunders Waterford Cold Press paper, 300 gms.
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Verrucola, Tuscany, 15" x 22".
A plein air painting from the recent workshop I ran in Tuscany with the Watermill at Posara. Painted in the afternoon after a hearty stew lunch at the Castillo restaurant. Quite changing lighting conditions and you had to memorise how the shadows were when you first embarked on the painting. Luckily we had a group of people who went up the steps to the Fortress so we had an inclination how the figure's shadow would fall. Being a portrait orientation, what worked well I think were the vertical bands of light and shade, and the shadows coming across the foreground.
Painted on Saunders Waterford paper, 300 gms NOT surface.
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Madrid, Spain, 15" x 11"
I took an old photo I had taken and tried to make something of it. The main thing I change when painting based on a photo is moving the people around. My photo had loads of people which I reduced in numbers for my painting. I especially wanted some people of the left interacting with the shadows and columns.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, 300 gms, NOT paper.
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Venice, Italy, 15" x 11".
Well I tried not to get the bridge dead centre, and I think it's just off. Maybe distracted by the left hand boat and figures. With the narrow canals and bright sunshine, reflected light can light up buildings which otherwise could be quite dark compared to the values on the other side of the canal. I decided right at the end to have a foreground shadow crossing the whole scene - just a very faint glaze of a greyish wash when everything was dry.
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This is my latest video - a trial using a £30 Body Cam clipped to my shirt. Out plein air painting in the village of Norton St Philip near Bath, with the 'Exiles'.
When I think about the setup more and some commentary, I'll post another.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, 300 gms NOT paper.
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St Meard de Gurcon, France, 15" x 11".
A little lane in a little village in the South West of France. Quite a simple view up to the main road with a couple of figures walking into the shade. Old buildings like this need quite a few different colours to give them that faded or old look. As I paint in the walls, there is a main colour but I add others to it like cerulean blue and yellow ochre.
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