‘Sous La Ruth No.2’ Watercolour. 30 x 42cm – A3 © The Artist. related posts in the rocks & cliffs & prehistory categories: Cliff in the Vezérè Valley – ‘Sous Le Ruth, No.1’ How to draw rocks & cliffs part one How to draw rocks & cliffs part two How to draw rocks & cliffs…
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Cliff in the Vezérè Valley – ‘Sous Le Ruth, No.1’
‘Sous Le Ruth, No.1’ Watercolour. A3 – 29 x 42 cm © The Artist. Typical rock formation of overhanging cliffs in the Vezérè A5 sketchbook How to draw rocks & cliffs part one – Marcilhac sur Célé – stone lithography How to draw rocks & cliffs part two – Pen & Ink-Leonardo da Vinci-Stone Lithography…
Watercolour of Tea Roses
‘Tea Roses – Chateau de Beduer’ 2008 Watercolour. 28 x 38cm (15 x 11 inches). © The Artist. The above painting was a demonstration piece ‘how to paint flowers loosely’ done for the benefit of students on my Watercolour Painting Holidays. Even if you just simply experience for the first time the act of painting…
Joy Sharland – Painters Painting
‘Painters in the Courtyard at Chateau de Beduer’ Joy SHARLAND June 2008 Watercolour. A3 © The Artist. Joy came on a recent Chateaux painting Holidays in SW France, & painted this accomplished watercolour. She had these kind words to say about the experience: Dear Adam Thank you for one of the best painting hols ever.…
Drawing of Bach’s "Ciaccona" Partita No.2 in D minor
‘Concert at Beduer’ Graphite pencil A5 sketchbook © The Artist. During the second week of the Chateaux Painting Holidays that I lead about a week ago, there was a classical concert in the chateau itself. It was a Bach evening; a celloist who played some of the solo cello pieces with beautiful sonority. And a…
Painting Courses in France
I’m back from teaching two painting courses at the chateau de beduer. All went well. We have over thirty percent student return-rate (as we’ve been running since 1998, it’s always nice to see familar faces & old friends), which counts for us. Nice to be able to say that we are recommended by Time Out…
Paintings of Painters Painting : Drawings of Draughts-Persons Drawing
‘Frederick and Jessie Etchells Painting’ Vanessa BELL oil on board 1912 51 x 53 cm Tate, London ‘Duncan Grant Painting’ Vanessa BELL c.1920 50 x 40 cm Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermartizburg Two Vanessa Bell paintings of painters painting. The first painting is from her Asheham House – Bloomsbury days. Virgina Woolf, Lytonn Strachey, Roger Fry,…
Mixed Medii Sketching in Public- GABRIEL DE ST. AUBIN
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) When I was in Paris last April, I saw the exhibition of Saint-Aubin at the Louvre. It was in America before it came over to Paris. But now it’s finished touring …. The reason why I thought a little review might be of interest was because this artist was a prolific…
Paris – La Folie! Travel Sketchbook
Paris – La Folie Adam Cope Double spread A5 Sketchbook 2008 mixed media © “We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Warm & Cool Colours in Painting
Some colour theorists confute the notion of warm & cool colours, saying it is far too culturally relative to be constant. Red in one culture is perceived as cool whilst in another it is considered warm. Weither or not scientists use the concept of warm / cool is up to them, IMO. As painters, I…
