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Uphill Marina #5
Nov 09, 2022
Uphill Marina, River Axe #4
Feb 07, 2021
Bridge and Reflections, Porlock Weir
Jan 06, 2021
Porlock Weir, UK, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A spot not too far away from me down on the North Somerset coast. Another low tide painting. Low tide, exposing the harbour bed, can be just as interesting as some boat reflections! Well in this one, best of both worlds with the bridge reflection.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
Minehead Harbour at low tide
Jan 14, 2020
Minehead, Somerset, 15" x 11"
Simple composition - go for 3 boats, all different sizes. It's amazing how many colours you can sometimes find in the harbour floor. Probably more than if it were the sea. My reference photo was a dull December day. I changed it to a sunny one!
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
Uphill Marina #3 - Getting the values right
Dec 19, 2019
Uphill Marina, Weston-Super-Mare, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A third painting of this lovely location on the River Axe. I must get down there when the tide is in. I think I got the values better on this one with the distant hills and stronger values in the foreground. Might have been nice to add in a few more posts to help the composition.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
Timsbury near Bath
Dec 18, 2018
Timsbury, UK, 15" x 11"
A lovely village just South of me where I did a demo to the local Art Group in the summer. Not sure which street this is. The locals said 'ooh there's nothing much to paint round here', but I beg to differ. Just catch the light at the right angle and some shadows across the street and it can hopefully make for a half decent composition.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
Harbour cottages Porlock Weir
Jan 05, 2018
Porlock, Somerset, 15" x 11"
Following on from a previous post - here are the cottages - almost on the shore front at Porlock Weir. The foreground is dominated by the harbour at low tide - a messy muddy hollow with lots of different tones and colours - reds, browns and blues. This area is punctuated by mooring chains over to the harbour wall which is on the right (out of picture). I sneaked in a couple of figures for scale and a bit of simple reflection in the pool.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms.
Harbour House - Porlock Weir
Jan 03, 2018
Porlock, UK, 15" x 11".
A group of cottages overlooking the pretty harbour of Porlock Weir in North Somerset. So this is low tide looking through the Harbour wall with a small footbridge across, leading to some cottages on the coast. The photo I took just had an empty harbour, so I think it needed at least one boat and I had to include a figure as well to avoid it looking like a post apocalyptic scene.
Painted on Saunders Waterford Cold Press 300 gms.
Pulling ashore - Porlock Weir
Nov 04, 2017
Porlock Weir, UK, 22" x 15"
This was a demo painting and I laid down some extra washes on this one - more than I normally do, especially in the bottom right to try and create the form of a rocky slope. I decided to introduce a figure on the right with some movement. I am not sure what the figure is pulling, but it certainly isn't the big boat. Not too many colours were used. Mainly cobalt blue and burnt sienna were the primary two.
Painted on Saunders Waterford Paper, 300 gms, NOT surface.