I’ve been long absent from my blog – no excuses. I noticed that my last blog post was saying how I had not posted in a while! Well, things obviously didn’t change. Over recent weeks I have spent more time painting (minus a two week break during the Olympics!) and I thought I would…
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Amazed to find myself painting for the second time in one week – this is beginning to become a habit! Its so nice to wake up in the morning and find myself really looking forward to working on something. “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a…
Read MoreOil on Canvas, 16″ x 16″ Finding my feet, slowly ………………… Trying to learn to be patient, not only with the paint, but also with myself. Suffering from that one two steps forward, one step back but hoping that taking it slowly will bring greater rewards. Trees as usual causing me heartache. “Patience is the…
Read MoreI came back to this reference today to put into practice some things that I have been reading about. Slightly different crop this time. I’m much happier with this version and feel that I am beginning to make a breakthrough with bringing my foregrounds forward and pushing back the background. The tree also seems to…
Read MoreIn an attempt to get more painterly with landscapes I have started by painting from a photo I took in Missouri a couple of summers ago so that I can get to grips with the main concepts. Stage one, draw in your main shapes and block in the colours being careful about values. Stage two…
Read MoreThe sun refused to cooperate today and was doing that really annoying “now I am shining, now I’m not” thing so today’s painting was from a photo I took when visiting my mother and sister where they live in southern Spain. Ronda is one of their nearest sizeable towns (they live in the isolated white…
Read MoreAlso had great fun working this landscape – I need to take another look at it tomorrow in the daylight as I think it needs some tweaking. Its a very long time since I have done a landscape – I think this is the first in around 3 years. Landscapes were my first love in…
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