Chania, Crete, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A little bit of a made-up composition based on the Old Harbour in Chania, Crete. It's a location I have painted a few times, and it's a composition I am happy with - background apartments, row of boats and reflections. This time I made a feature of the blinds.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Cabo Roig, Spain, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A marina scene with the backdrop of some low cliffs, near Murcia, Spain. Composition wise, I went with a wedge shape - the ridge of the cliff mirroring the reflections and narrower to the right. You have to be careful with reflections. Here they're darker than the objects above.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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River Tamar, UK, 15" x 11" Watercolor
Inspired by a bit of Claude Buckle, I attempted this misty scene on the River Tamar. A limited palette and concentrating on values and the simple silhouette shape of the boats and their reflections. Water reflections are best done with a mop brush with a good point/edge.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Weekly sketch night at my art society, the 'Bristol Savages', and the topic for the night was Virtute et Industria (virtue or valour and industry) - the motto for the city of Bristol in the UK. So we have 2 hours to produce a painting based on that topic without the use of any reference material (so no cheating looking up on the web). I created a scene of working fishing boats.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Wednesday night at my art club, the Bristol Savages, and topic for the night was a quote by John Ruskin - "There is no wealth but life". So you have 2 hours to come up with a painting, without using any resource material - and sorry, no looking up google images! So I equated wealth=life and came up with a tropical scene and some expensive boats....
John Ruskin was a leading English art critic of the Victorian era, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He also painted in watercolours!!
Full quote from him - “There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.”
Painted on Saunders Waterford, cold press, 300 gms
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Iron Acton, UK, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
The pretty village of Iron Acton, close to where I live. Quite a simple scene and I made a focus of the windscreen. Nice and bright against a dark background and a slight curve of reflection of the building to make it a little more interesting.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Chania, Crete,Watercolour, 15" x 11"
So a limited palette painting on Chania Harbour and I generally in a scene like this, try to have a dark background to some lighter boats in the foreground and so the row of heritage buildings on the quayside were a perfect backdrop for me. A frame on the left with a fairly loose rendition of the side of an apartment block or it might have been a hotel right on the waterfront.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Staithes, N Yorkshire, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Painted during a recent evening at my art society, The Bristol Savages, this is a made-up scene of the footbridge over the Beck in the pretty village of Staithes, well like by artists as a location to paint plein air. I have painted this scene some 4 or 5 years ago and the main house of the other side of the river was a bright turquoise colour. I decided to change that and make the focus the shape of the boat pointing downstream.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Chania, Crete, 15" x 11"
Not sure if the composition worked 100% on this one. I put the two figures in on the right, but every time I look at it, I just think there needs to be a small boat may be over on the left to balance. Or at least just left of centre.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Livorno, Italy, 15" x 11"
This is the wide canal which encircles the older part of Livorno. There are many boats moored to the waterfront, which I presume belong in the most part to residents right there. So I thought this made for a nice composition. Some key reflections and then the row of boats in sort of a fan shape.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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