St Foy la Grande, watercolour, 15" x 11"
St Foy la Grande in SW France. I loved the diagonal shadows across the building created by the signposts and CCTV cameras on the corner of the cafe. Must be a very secure place! Painted with my 3-colour palette. Nice place to sit and watch the world go by.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Libourne, France, 15" x 11"
I don't always advocate painting a sky twice in watercolour but this time I think it needed it for a bit of extra impact. Normally a sky is done in one go with me. This is the main square in the centre of town. Also painted with my restricted 3 colour palette.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Funchal, Madiera, 15" x 11"
One of the main, wide streets leading down to the sea. A bit of a contra jour, painting into the light. I like to rough up pedestrian crossings - they wouldn't look right being too perfect with nice edges and clean white stripes. So I deliberately paint them in quite quickly - of course following the lines of my initial pencil drawing.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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St Foy la Grande, France, 15" x 11"
A quick plein air at the Cafe du Casino. No, not a casino. Just a very friendly cafe in St Foy, SW France. Here I am framing the scene top and bottom with some dark values, andin the foreground a couple of figures blend in with that. Then just a quick rendition of the street beyond and a few cars.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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St Foy la Grande, France, 15" x 11"
A quick plein air at the Cafe du Casino. No, not a casino. Just a very friendly cafe in St Foy, SW France. Here I am framing the scene top and bottom with some dark values, andin the foreground a couple of figures blend in with that. Then just a quick rendition of the street beyond and a few cars.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Bristol Savages (the painting society I am a member of) sketch night and the topic given by the Chairman for the evening "Three Feathers". Inspired by Prince Charles 70th birthday on that day and the badge of the Prince of Wales so we have a plume of three feathers. We now had 2 hours to complete a painting based on that theme without using any reference material, so now Google search!! Luckily I had painted in a previous week a scene for Ledbury Artists and their Church Street with the Prince of Wales Pub. Ideal and fresh in my memory!
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Cagliari, Sardinia, 15" x 11"
Another fun exercise in some splattering and connecting (joining up major objects in the composition). A scene of people under the shade of a canopy in the Piazza Yenne area of Cagliari. Some made up figures going in different directions and the background deliberately kept simple. Also quite a limited palette used for this and concentrating on tonal values.
Painted on Saunders Waterford. Cold Press, NOT, 300 gms
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Biddestone, Wiltshire, 15" x 11"
Just a slightly different angle from #1 plein air, and a view right down the front of the White Horse pub and the row of pretty cottages on this side of the village centre. I raised the pub sign just a little to suit the composition. Can't remember if there really was a 'Real Ale' sign there, but they served real ales in the pub anyway! Last painting before lunch on the day with the 'Exiles' Plein Air painting group.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms paper.
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Biddestone, UK, 15" x 11"
A plein air at Biddestone Village, a very pretty village in Wiltshire - country pub, duck pond, green etc. This was the first plein air of the day, and I had a nice bit of shelter from the sun on the right hand side. When it's a hot day, doing plein air you sometimes need to choose a comfortable place to paint from first, then decide exactly what to paint from there.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Watercolour 15" x 11"
Bristol Savages Sketch Night and the topic for the evening - "The promise of things to come". So you then have two hours to do a painting based on that topic, without the use of any reference material! I decided to go with a French Cafe scene and a waiter emerging from the shadows with a bottle of Bordeaux for a couple of customers. Quite a simple composition and the shadows repeating the edge of the roof.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300gms
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