Landscape Watercolour of Tetbury, 15" x 11".
Silver Street Tetbury, looking into the autumn sun and a row of large residential houses in the background. The tree was painted leaving some little bits of paper round the outside, to give a bit more of an impression of the strong light. Painting against the light makes it a lot easier to connect different objects thrown into shade - the bases of houses, car windscreens, shadows underneath cars, people nearby and so on.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 22" x 15".
A view looking down Chipping Sodbury High Street towards the hills at the southern tip of the cotswolds. The washes of the hills and buildings were given a bit of a hazy feel with a bit of scrubbing out while still damp. Mr Delivery person was put in as an afterthought after I'd put in the white van. Painting a row of cars sideways on is a bit difficult I think (that's the way they park each side of the wide street), so I've simplified it a bit.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11".
Higher up the High Street in Chipping Sodbury and a scene of mainly private houses. Steps in this painting - 1) Sky, painting around roof tops and chimneys. 2) A main wash over the buildings and road, painting around the highlights on the cars. 3) Darken up the roof tops a bit more with a warm colour. 4) Second wash over the road coming darker in the foreground. 5) Windows, painted in loosely. 6) Car details and their shadows, then figures.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 22" x 15".
A view of the top end of Chipping Sodbury High Street, away from the shops and mainly private houses or offices. Sometimes between the houses, are small archways to small mews and back gardens. Most of the houses are characterised by repeated gable windows (easier to paint head-on!). Chipping Sodbury has apparently the second widest 'market town' high street in the UK! Major challenge painting the buildings here are whether to paint all the white window frames, so I've just suggested a few here, painted in with weak white gouache.
Landscape Watercolour of the Cotswolds, 15" x 11"
A commission and a typical country lane scene. Winter snow is a great subject for watercolour with it's tonal contrasts and dropping in bits of colour to make the snow a bit more interesting.
This painting is sold.
Landscape Watercolour of Tetbury, 15" x 11".
Chipping Street in central Tetbury, looking towards Christ Church on the right. The day was actually quite cloudy, so I had to assume some shadows and the largish foreground shadow. There's a little bit of negative painting around the windows on the left hand building showing some light, and around the car. Not too careful to still leave a loose feeling hopefully.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 22" x 15".
An old pub in Chipping Sodbury, the Beaufort Hunt. In the winter it always has a nice log fire going. Anyway, steps for the painting 1) Sky and wash over rest of painting, coming warmer on the road. 2) After fairly dry, went in with the roof tops and paint around figures and car tops. 3) Cars and windscreens. 4) Deeper shadows of the buildings and timber details. 5) Last was figure details and deeper shadows of the cars.
This painting won first prize in my local art competition, the 'Yate Open' in 2013.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 22" x 15".
Bowling Hill on the entry to the market town of Chipping Sodbury - the main road is to the left and there's a little dead end on the right, lined with period buildings. Large trees on the left provide a bit of dark contrast to the light of the road surface. While the road wash was still a bit damp, it was splattered with clear water and a bit of extra pigment dropped in.
Painted on Saunders Waterford Rough, 140 lbs.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 22" x 15".
Another scene of Brook Street Chipping Sodbury. It's hidden from the main High Street and I am sure not many locals know of this scene reminiscent of a little country village somewhere in middle England. Trees were done with my new smallish mop brush purchased from a national web site for the princely sum of 15p.
On Saunders Waterford Rough, 140 Lbs.
Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11".
A composition of the riverside path along the River Frome in Chipping Sodbury (it's over to the left of picture), and the pretty little cottages in Brook Street. The lines of the shadows (I remember using quite a big mop brush) help with defining the form of the different levels. Then a few vertical lines of the sign and telegraph poles connect the picture foreground & background (hopefully).
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