WORK IN PROGRESS ‘Mistletoe’ medium size oil on canvas French format : 15 F – 65 x 54 cm (approx 21 x 26 inches) © adam cope Actually I think it’s finished now. I had to wait long time for a another sunny evening when I has some free time to paint.
Category: Medium size oil
medium sized oils, with largest dimension greater than 40 cm. French picture formats 6F upwards. 8F & 8P mes preferés
Painting of ‘The True Vine’
‘The True Vine’ Medium Size Oil on Canvas 61 x 46 cm (approx 24 x 18 inches). © adam cope DETAIL “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may…
WIP – Pechers de Vignes, Finished State
‘Pechers de Vignes 1’ – Finished State Medium Size Oil on Canvas 15 F 2009 ©adam cope WIP = Work In Progress These lovely trees seem to have an ‘inner fire’ in autumn, as if they were lit up from within. Beautiful tree, I’ve planted one in my garden 🙂 Confess to being happy with…
Chromatic Black in the Colourist Palette
WORK IN PROGRESS – UNFINISHED STATE ‘Mistletoe’ medium size oil on canvas 15 F ©adam cope Chromatic Black in the Colourist Palette Experimenting with a new mix for ‘black’. Lets call it a ‘chromatic black’ (as does Dan Smith oil paints) in the hope that it’s more colour friendly than soot (lamp black)& burnt bones…
Artists & Ecology 5 – Le Dropt, Castillonnès – une trame verte?
‘ Nyiad – Le Dropt à St.Dizier (avant les’ oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm 2010 © adam cope An ash tree growing out of the middle of an old crack willow, not coppiced for many a year. ‘ Nyiad’ Sketchbook pen & ink 2010 ©adam cope Wild Wood. Tangle Wood. Nyiad. Dryiad. River.…
painting of the dordogne river in winter – UNFINISHED STATE
UNFINISHED STATE WIP work inprogress ‘Ilots, Pontours, Dordogne – 2’ UNFINISHED STATE Medium Size Oil on Canvas 70 x 33 cm ©Adam Cope Actual Size Detail – to give you an idea of how the paint is applied Palette of muted winter browns in weak sunlight. Bright ultramarine reflections of the sky on still waters.…
Ilôts dans la Dordogne
‘Ilôts, Pontours, Dordogne – 1’ Oil on Canvas 46 x 38 cm ©Adam Cope Dark waters fast flowing, white water crests over rapids & reed beds. Opaque water, gun metal grey flavoured with mud. Little islands – ‘ilôts’ – with willow, driftwood & pinky orange cornus reeds. Cormorants & swans. Cold, grey day.Here’s a watercolour…
Dipytchs, Tripytchs, Parallax & Cézanne on Painting Locations
‘Pêchers des Vignes 2’ Oil on Canvas medium size oil – 15 F format francais 54 x 65cm (approx 26 x 22 inches) © Adam Cope available ‘Pêchers des Vignes 3’ Oil on Canvas medium size oil – 15 F format francais 54 x 65cm (approx 26 x 22 inches) © Adam Cope available These…
La Dordogne, Bergerac
‘The Dordogne at Begerac’ The boat is ‘un gabare’, a flat bottomed haulage vessel from yesteryear, used for transporting cargo downstream. Now it’s restored, motorised & hauls tourist both up & downstream. A long sunny summer, with even october smiling with blue skies 🙂 Back from exhibiting at La Maison des Vin de Bergerac. Two…
Le Forêt de Biron, Dordogne
‘Le Forêt de Biron’ Medium Size Oil on Canvas 65 x 50cm (approx 25,5 x 20 inches). © adam cope The forest is in flower, mauves of heathers & yellows of plantagenesta (broom, the heraldic flower of the Plantagent dynasty). Down in the deep dark wood (guffalos), the eiry ‘brame’ , the wailing of the…
