Poplar Trees in Spring time

  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”…

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…

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…