Landscape Watercolour of Chipping Sodbury, 15" x 11".
A view actually from a supermarket car park across to the tower of St John Baptist Church in Chipping Sodbury. There's a little footbridge here over the River Frome and leading on to the High Street. Quite a simple scene and done fairly quickly. A 'sword' brush was used for the foreground branches and leaves top right - plenty of paint on the brush and dab in a random fashion.
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 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 Bristol, 15" x 11".
A scene looking across the Bristol Waterfront, with on the right, Pero's Bridge or the Horned Bridge, which joins Queens Square with the Millennium Square. Hopefully an autumnal feel with the low light level, long shadows, a bit of a stormy sky and the fallen leaves on the ground. The building on the far side used to be warehouses on the actual waterfront, but have now been converted to popular bars/restaurants.
Landscape Watercolour of Yate, 15" x 11".
A simple scene here, a location near to where I live. The Goose Green is nothing to do with the Falklands, but gets it's name from the Goose Fairs that were held a century or two ago. There's an avenue of purple maples running along the road, making the background. It's a popular place in the town for walking your dog, so a figure and dog makes for a bit of a focal point. I had a bit of fun with the leaves in a loose style and plenty of splattering.
Painted on Saunders Waterford Rough, 140 lbs.
Landscape Watercolour of Bristol, 15" x 11".
A square in central Bristol. There used to be a busy main road going through the middle of it at an angle, but now it's all closed to traffic and a peaceful spot surrounded by the mature trees. Trees in this picture were done by base colour on main trunks first, then the leaves starting with the background coming forwards and up. Then last went in the shadows. Highlights and shadows were put on the leaves on the ground.
Landscape Watercolour of Yate, 22" x 15"
A location close to me and a nice green space in the town, popular with dog walkers. I thought the composition looked okay with the sweeping road, the cottage on the corner, and some bright light hitting the roofs and road. Somehow my eye keeps going to the litter bin. A little bit of red was dragged across the grass to dull it down a bit.
Painted on Saunders Waterford paper 140 lbs.
Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11"
A windy day on the sea-front promenade of Arrecife, Lanzarote. Well it's windy there quite alot during the winter months with storms coming off the Atlantic. Normally I do skies in one pass, but this one had an initial wash and a bit of cobalt turquoise, then allowed to dry a bit, followed by some darker patches. Bendy tall palm trees add to the effect of the win and of course you can have all the long leaves going one way.
Painted on Saunders Waterford paper, 140 lbs.
Landscape Watercolour of Yate, 15" x 11".
A scene very local to me and an old part of Yate which is now mainly a 'new' town. Goose Green is so named because of the Goose Fairs held there a century or two ago. I think what attracted me to the subject was the dark shadows going across the road cutting horizontal lines up the lane. I put the figure and dog in as it's a popular area for dog walking.
Landscape Watercolour of Lanzarote, 15" x 11".
The promenade along the side of the new marina at Puerto Calero Lanzarote. Major challenge here is the fifty thousand or so boats and their masts and rigging being very complicated on the left. But I just made a few impressions of the sterns of a few and the cabin tops and leave the rest to the imagination hopefully.
Painted on Saunders Waterford paper, 140 lbs.
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