WIP : Sunset 31 Dec – Photographing Paintings & Retouching Plein-Air small formats.

WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP) Sunset 31 Dec – after session in the field and two retouching sessions in the studio 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Sunset 31 Dec – after first session in the field 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Photographing…

Sunset : 21 December, longest night – Black in paintings.

‘Sunset : 21 December, longest night’ medium size oil on canvas 8 figure (46 x 38 cm; approx 18 x 14 inches) © adam cope oil painting of sunset on longest night Something amazing happened yesterday. The grey skies that have weighed us under this last month parted & THERE WAS LIGHT. It felt like…

Bedtime Story 4

‘Bedtime Story 4’ Graphite 40 x 40cm (approx 16 x 16 inches). © adam cope Detail He was so much into the story that i think he got a tad worried about the suspense & the thrill of it all … ‘the willing suspense of disbelief’… no?

301th post – (very) Slow Blogging – Off Season Plein-air

This is the 301st posting. >>>>>>>>>>> SLOW BLOGGING The New York Times has an interesting article about ‘slow blogging’. Basically, it’s Slow Movement meets blogging. Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace   A Slow Blog Manifesto, written in 2006 by Todd Sieling, a technology consultant from Vancouver, British Columbia, laid out the movement’s tenets.…

Dessin d’un Garde Champêtre – Drawings of French Market Places

‘Le Garde Champêtre de Bergerac, Périgord’ graphite A5 sketchbook © The Artist. OK, new category title ‘FRENCH MARKET PLACES’, which I must update the previous posts in this blog as some of the buskers play in the market places & soome of the portraits are of local farmers selling their wares. So to simplify those…

Vendeur de Pantoufles – Drawings of French Market Places

Detail ‘Vendeur des Pantoufles’ graphite doublespread A5 sketchbook ©The Artist. This bedroom slipper salesman caught my eye in the market today. Am I going mad? Has the winter wet & grey season driven out my plein-airist, colourist poetic landscape urges?Slippers have the same connotations in France as elsewhere. Someone who is ‘Pantouflé’, speaking familarly, is…

Painting Holidays in Dordogne & Provence, France 2025
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