this painting’s lay-in first stage WIP I’m getting ready for a big exhibition at the La Maison des Vins de Bergerac. It’s a hige & beautiful space – up to sixty paintings! This large oil from 2010 and spring 2011, finished off in the studio & now framed. Now sold. [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center”…
Category: Large oils
Large oil paintings. Upwards from 65 cm largest dimension, some of which are large plein-air paintings.
The green Dordogne in sunny spring time
Detail Commissioned painting Oil on CANVAS 130 x 84cm (approx 52 x 33 inches). © ADAM COPE SOLD Finished this large oil, which was a commission. I really enjoyed doing this commission. Partly because the place is just so amazing: ….the view looking behind the other way Partly because it was great to do…
Grand Roc, Les Eyezies – large oil painting by Adam Cope
Big but not very good painting this ‘Grand Roc – Les Eyzies, Dordogne’ – Finished state Oil on Canvas 86,5 x 76 cm (approx 34 x 30 inches). © Adam Cope POST SCRIPT 2013 – i don’t think this a good painting. There’s still a challenge for me : how to paint the rocks &…
WIP : compositional sketch & tonal ‘notan’
WIP ….WORK IN PROGRESS – watercolour – a tonal ‘notan’……WIP I’ve been working on a large oil painting these last three weeks. A commission. It’s 130 x 81 cm – approx 51 x 32 inches. Bigger than my usual size. Good to be doing something different. A lot of work, which I’ll post as WIPs…
Spring Greens – WIP : Large Plein-Air Oil
This is a commission 🙂 It’s great to be doing a large plein-air oil again 🙂 It will take several more sessions on site & several more back in the studio. Way bigger than usual, so good to be working ‘out of the habitual box’. Tables & studio easel outside, on the edge of a…
WIP: Lay-in, Large Oil, Plein Air
WORK IN PROGRESS – WIP 81 x 65 cm (approx 32 x 26 “) This large work in progress from last year… again now is the time the poplars are in bloom… ‘bronzage’, with their bronze crimson yellow catkins on white-grey-violet trunks with yellow fungus… Why so big? Why o why why? Humanly impossible to…
500th Post – La Vallee de Bergerac depuis Monbazillac –
This is the 500th post on this blog (489 published, 11 drafts not yet published). postcriptum 2013 – been editting down the blog, so this is one will no longer number 500 Many thanks for your following. Your comments are an encouragement to me 🙂 Just blogging away… Just keep on keeping on… Just painting…
Painting of Vines in Autumn – Large Size Plein-air Painting
‘Semillion, Labadie, Monbazillac’ Large Size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 26 x 32 inches) ©adam cope sold Here’s the finished state. Here’s the link to its Work In Progress : Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting.I went out the next day for a second plein-air session with a mental note ‘yellow &…
WIP : Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting
WORK IN PROGRESS _ UNFINISHED STATE ‘Semillion – Labadie, Monbazillac’ Large Size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 26 x 32 inches) ©adam cope Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting The vigorous semillion still have their leaves on the south & south west facing slopes. They turn to a pure shinning yellow-gold (cadimum…
Le Cabanon – finished state – adding things to a landscape: Richard Schmid
‘Le Cabanon’ Finished state 2008 – 2009 Large Size Oil on canvas 72 x 54cm (approx 28,5 x 21 inches). © The Artist. For those who aren’t familar with wine growing, the blue amongst the vines are posts. The paint is thick & impasto on this medium-sized oil. Here’s the study from a few posts…