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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Here's my latest video up on my YouTube Channel and this time covering different techniques to create texture of objects - a shiny surface, pebbles on a beach and so on. Hope you like it and send me your comments please!
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Dordogne, France, 15" x 11"
Another painting based on a dashcam image of mine. Do you have a dashcam? Many people use them now and it's surprising how many images you may have lurking on your device which might make decent subjects for a painting. So here's mine, a quiet country road in SW France, could be anywhere. But a play on light and shade and an accidental figure coming towards us.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Lido, Venice, 15" x 11"
Cedars are one of my favourite trees (wish I had a Cedar of Lebanon) so I could not resist this attempt at the top of a blue cedar just popping over the roof tops at the Lido, Venice. I suppose an ordinary street scene, but jazz it up with some light and shade and a couple of street signs, row of park cars. Probably I prefer doing this sort of scene than the run of the mill gondolas and canals.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Dartmouth, Devon, 15" x 11"
A demo painting from quite a while ago. The Inner Harbour at Dartmouth in Devon, UK. An exercise in laying down a wash (the water), some careful painting around the foreground boats, composition with the placing of the boats, values (as in the dark of the reflections around the lighter value of the tops of the boats and a nit of looseness (the far boats in the shadow of the buildings).
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Llangollen, Wales, 15" x 11"
Llangollen is a small town and community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee at the edge of the Berwyn mountains and the Clwydian Range. Here's a view looking up river near the town centre and the boulders strewn across the whole width of the river.
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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Bergerac, France, 15" x 11"
A little side street close to the Dordogne River in Bergerac and a sunny corner. A few watercolour techniques used here - wet in wet on the left hand building and some dry brush strokes on the road and building in shade on the right. Had to slip in a couple of figures in the shade.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, NOT
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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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