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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Last day on my recent trip and we're up in the mountain village of Monte del Bianchi. Every year I'm there, we seem to always get glorious weather and lovely bright sunshine. My plein air was from the 'end' of the village. The monastry/church is behind me (you can just make out the shadow of the cross from it) and we're looking up the village. There's only one narrow street. Very peaceful spot and great views of the valleys around.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
This painting is sold.
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Livorno, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Wednesday Night Sketch at my Art Society and topic given to the artists by the Chairman of the evening was "all our yesterdays". So you have 2 hours to complete a painting based on that subject without using any resource material (no doing a Google search now!). As I was in Livorno, nearly yesterday, I decided to do a sketch loosely based on the New Venice area - a bridge, distant building, moored boats.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Cornwall, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A demo painting on a workshop from earlier in the year. Loved this scene from a point of view of the white cottage on the far side of the little bay and all those boats with their repeating patterns. I struggled to get a figure in though. Might have been too much.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
#watercolour #StcMill #watercolorpainting
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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.
#watercolour #StcMill #watercolorpainting
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St Emilion, France, 15" x 11"
Day 3 (Tuesday) and my painting friends and I visit St Emilion, the most famous wine-growing area in the world. Fortunately, the wine is too expensive to drink, so we had to paint! This is my demo painting of the Place du Marche.
See the view we had on Google Street View
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Castillon, France, 15" x 11"
Day 2 (Monday) and we're in the town of Castillon on the River Dordogne. A nice market here and chance to paint from the shade looking towards a lovely building in the sun and some figures/shoppers in the market.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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Saint Seurin, France, 15" x 11"
The market at Saint Seurin on a Sunday morning and the first picture as 'tutor/leader' on a Painting Holiday I organised. So a contra jour to start with. The location I chose was about the only spot where I could paint. It was so busy! With plein air painting, when it's a hot day, there is an argument to say, find somewhere comfortable first and then paint what you see.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Weekly sketch night at my art society, the 'Bristol Savages', and the topic for the night was "This Happy Breed of Men". It was English Night (we also have themed Irish, Scottish and Welsh nights too during our season). 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).
"This happy breed of men", is a line spoken by John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's Richard II. Well quite an easy option I chose was to have a village scene, two pubs, one of course called John of Gaunt (maybe the other Richard II), and some happy people between the two!
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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