”The Sluice Gate’ Small Size Oil on Masonite 23 x 25 cm © adam cope 100 euros ex P & P The small study is an effort to simplify & to prioritise colour over detail & tonality. Just a study, just a little inkling of an idea… Take it further into a fully resolved large…
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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…
Limestone macro photograph
“Paesina – ‘landscape’ – stone comes from Tuscany, Italy. A silty limestone formed during the Cretaceous period, it is marked by a 3D network of fine cracks through which groundwater diffuses bringing oxides of various minerals and creating the intricate, landscape-like colours and patterns” Photograph: Earth Images Ltd Interesting on-line exhibition of Earth Images Ltd…
Pruniers 5
‘Pruniers 5’ medium size oil on canvas 36 x 48 cm (approx 14 x 18 inches) © adam cope Very pleasant evening yesterday. Long, light, bright sunshine. A warm wind from the south (‘L’Antan’) carrying the sweet smells of spring. The landscape now covered with green. A fresh lime green of new leaves photosynthesising. Lovely,…
WHERE the bee sucks, there suck I
‘Cherry, Quince, Bay’ medium size oil on canvas 36 x 48 cm (approx 14 x 18 inches) © adam cope WHERE the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly. After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live…
tonality?
Here’s the last painting which had a strong tonal theme of black tree-trunks/white blossom. Here’s the same painting with the colour stripped out in PS via greyscale. Here’s the greyscale is changed by darkening the mid-tone grey in PS. Using Photoshop elements to help painting It’s more stormy with the white blossom more dramatic.…
Plum Blossom
‘Pruniers 4’ Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © The Artist. 300 €uros via PayPal – see sidebar for details Plum Blossom The recent sunny weather broke yesterday evening with a grey rainfront edging in from the Atlantic.These two plum trees were the last in the orchard to bloom;…
Plum Trees in Blossom
‘Pruniers 3’ Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © adam cope sold Same plum orchard as before. Painted a week later this year than previous years. Let’s hope there’s no frost during this moon cycle – ‘la Lune Rousse’ – the ‘red moon’ because of the risk of frosts,…
On the Hoof 5 – Ruben’s Cows, Drawing Studies vs. Photography.
my drawings of my neighbours’ cows in the field opposite – drawing studies from life on the hoof 😉 get the joke? if u don’t then u shpould know that colloquial (en-gb) ‘on the hoof’ means on the trot, on the move, improvised, ‘sur la vif’ (fr) … ie gesture drawings of moving objects.…
awarded
Blah – I hate April Fools Day! Galina Nikolova has kindly awarded me the PASSION FOR PAINTING AWARD. Galina is a Bulgarian painter whose sizzling works fly off the webpage. I would have gladly awarded her in return but I think it’s not allowed to hand awards back… It’s a pretty logo isn’t it? A…
