‘Springtime in the Dordogne’ Watercolour. 24 x 32cm © The Artist. 200€uros I’m going off-blog for a few weeks, teaching, so wishing yo all well.
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Watercolour of a Cello Player – Pablo Casals
‘Alison & her Cello’ # 6 1999Watercolour.approx 30 x 40 cm© The Artist. Yesterday’s post about Menuhin & Romani violinist got me reminiscing about the time a rare bird flew into my studio. A young American trying out France, a concert cello-ist, classically trained, an orchestra player on the west coast, with a very beautiful…
Romani Musicians Busking in the Street, Paris – Yehudi Menuhin
‘Romani Duet’ dessin sur la vif A5 sketchbook © The Artist. struck me as pretty unwashed & hairy… Romani Musicians Busking in the Street, Paris Came reeling out of the Centre de Pomdiou, my head full of great art, into La Place Beauborg to be meet with some beautiful spanish feeling ….. duendé… sotto, low…
Paris, France, The World…
‘Notre Dame de Paris’ Etching © The Artist, W. A. Grondhart. Paris – what can you say? Amazing visit. Amazing town. ‘La Cité Phare’This is an etching from my personal art collection. It was given to me by a good friend, who collects my paintings & with whom I always feel happy. Apparently, it was…
Exhibiting in Paris? Ecomonic Recession?
‘Mains dans les Poches’ A4 sketch pencil ©adam cope (To have one’s hands in one’s pockets in colloquial french means to be NOT spending…) Exhibiting in Paris? I’m off to Paris for a week or so , so no blogging , no computers for a bit. Intend to speak to the gallery close to the…
Four Paintings Starring the Moon – Coleridge & Symbolic Language
Four paintings by Adam Cope starring the Moon ‘Le Noyer’ 1997 87 x 70 cm Oil on Canvas © The Artist. ‘L’Esperance’ 2004 73 x 54 cm Oil on Canvas © The Artist ‘La Lune Rousse’ 2007 30 x 40 cm oil on panel © the artist ‘Landorre, Quercy’ 2008 6 figure (41…
Morning, Vines
‘Morning, Vines’ Oil on Canvas 36 x 48cm © The Artist. Wet, rainy here in the Dordogne these last two weeks. Been doing all those jobs that free up time in the summer for teaching, exhibiting & painting. Most importantly, my tax returns. ‘slower paintings’ And finishing off ‘slower paintings’ in the studio such as…
Plum Blossom _ Ruskin on Imagination
‘Plum Blossom’ Oil on Canvas 61 X 31 cm © The Artist. Ruskin on Imagination : Wholly in proportion to the intensity of feeling which you bring to the subject you have chosen, will be the depth and justice of your perception of its character (16.370) Modern PaintersThere is reciprocal action between the intensity of…
Caves in art – Ruskin
‘Inside Looking Out’ Watercolour & Ink. 25 x 32cm © The Artist. Actually it’s not a cave but an overhang. RUSKIN on Landscape painting The landscape painter must always have two great and distinct ends: the first to induce in the spectator’s mind the faithful conception of any natural objects whatsoever; the second, to…
Rock Formations – John Ruskin – Prehistoric Shelters in the Dordogne
a prehistoric shelter… Crazy cliff faces that I wrote about in ‘how-to-draw-rocks’ & elsewhere… click on the rock category to see them all. The above watercolour portrays a prehistoric shelter. These ancient places for me feel charged with … our beginnings as a species. What was once there & what might be there…