‘Le Cingle de Limeuil’ Cingle = meander in the river Dordogne at Limeuil. ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil’ Oil on canvas 65 x 54cm (approx 26 x 22 inches). © The Artist. sold The above painting is plein-air, painted on location, on the spot looking down from the steep scape slope, buzzards flying up on…
Category: Medium size oil
medium sized oils, with largest dimension greater than 40 cm. French picture formats 6F upwards. 8F & 8P mes preferés
WIP : Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne
WORK IN PROGRESS – WIP ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne’ ETAPE …. En Progres … Oil on Canvas 65 x 54cm (approx 25,5 x 21,5 inches). © The Artist. Le cingle = the meander of the dordogne at Limeuil FINISHED STATE ETAPE FINALE HOMAGE À CÉZANNE Too much like Cézanne? Ahh maitre Cézanne, you…
bright spring yellows – Matisse on shock
‘Printemps, Dropt’ Medium Size Oil on Canvas 12 paysage format francais © The Artist. Incredible rebirth of the leaves, yellow gold in the bright white sunlight. The thing is just how do you use colour ? Here’s another painting of the same scene a few weeks earlier, just before the leaves opened, dating from 2007:…
La Dordogne à Lalinde 2 – L’Eau et les Rêves, Gaston Bachelard.
‘Ilots, La Dordogne à Lalinde’ Medium Size Oil on canvas x 40cm (approx 30 x 14 inches). © The Artist I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called le Vallage for the great number of its valleys. The most beautiful of its places for me was…
La Dordogne à Lalinde 1
‘La Dordogne à Lalinde 1’ Medium Size Oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm © adam cope The same little islands – ‘îlots’ en francais – as in these paintings down from the opposite bank. ‘ Îlots, Pontours 1’ Medium size oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm © adam cope ‘ Îlots, Pontours 2’…
Brambles
Ronces Oil on MDF panel 41 x 33 cm (approx 12,5 x 17 inches) © Adam Cope A session in the studio repainting this plein-air piece. Red & blue, no? Ronces (fr) = brambles (en) I like brambles a lot for their vigour & pioneering life-force. This was an over-grown patch by an abandoned…
Path at the End of Winter
cornus = dogwood This path at the end of winter, lined with oaks. Red dogwood suckers. Life surging back into the landscape. painted this in one session, reduced me to tears… all prima large oil painting in plein-air, yeaa! alla prima = first take
Karst Landscape – finished state
large oil painting… The bright spring sunlight has returned. Seeing it again gave me the prompt that I needed to finish off this large oil canvas fom last year. Sometimes a painting needs a year or two (even more sometimes) before it arrives at completion. See the work in progress & some commentary…
Ditypch ‘Mistletoe’ – Parallax in Landscape art
‘Misteltoe’ Ditypch Oil on two canvas each 64 x 55 cm (approx 21,5 x 25 inches) © adam cope “Here, by the riverside, the motifs multiply, the same subject seen from different angle offers a subject for study of the greatest interest, and so varied that iI think I can keep myself busy for months…
Landscape as the Mirror of the Soul
‘Misteltoe 2’ Part of a diptych Medium Size Oil on Canvas 65 x 54 cm (approx 21 x 26 inches) © adam cope ‘Meaning’ is often conferred to the landscape by us humans. Certainly, us artists find ‘meaning’…. us image makers, who weave our lives in & out of both inner & outer worlds, trying…