Mea culpa

I’m guilty. I’ve not done a small sized painting since friday last, so I’ve not honoured my painting a week commitment. The dog ate my homework? The dog ate my homework? well, about the only excuse I’ll blog in public (other than admit my intense disappointment) was that I did get on site twice last…

Vers Issigeac

30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist.SOLD For the first time this year, painting to the accompanying sound of an orchestra of cicardas. Alll the pleasant memories of summer resurfacing. High temperatures over fields of tall grass, their mauvey-pink heads of seeds swaying in the gentle eveing breeze. Bands yellowing wheat & white…

Terre Rouge, Printemps – QUERCY

‘Terre Rouge, Printemps’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available terre rouge (fr) = red earth (en) The red earth again, this time making a startling tapestry with the fresh, bright green growth of spring. For more about the iron mars red soil, see previous post ‘Terre Rouge, Appelation de Cahors’

Vendanges – Journée Ensoleillée (Unfinished State)

81 x 50 cm approx. © adam cope Another painting from my ‘cuvée vendanges 2006’. Needing to finish off my larger paintings for this year’s exhibitions, which are fast approaching. All the teaching to be done as well… tempus fuigit. repainting an oil painting – finishing an oil painting This is a slow painting, which…

Fauvist Barns 1 : Muted Red & not Heightened Colour – American Fauve Barns, Wolf Kahn

‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available Old Tobacco Drying Barns The South West is where most of France’s tobacco is grown. This is an old drying barn (sechoir), not far from my house. In these types of barns, alot of work goes on, as the leaves are hung…

Saule

30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. ©. Sold. High grass, bluey tints, another ‘vieux tetard’ (coppiced willow) here in St.Dizier. the right size for plein-air painting Nice to be swinging the brush around again in a more natural way (natural to me, that it is), after having made the mistake of trying to fit…