15 x 21 cm. Felt Tip Pens on Paper. Notan study. Tous droits reservés. Copyright – The Artist. BTW, this was a demonstration piece of last week’s painting workshop here in france French Market Places The fish-monger’s wife was a cubist delight, a three tone design with a flip of a fin. Market day is…
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Tonality : ‘Avec Nostradamus ( La Nuit de Temps commencant à la Fontaine de St Rémy)’
‘Avec Nostradamus ( La Nuit de Temps commencant à la Fontaine de St Rémy)’ Watercolour, Arches, quarter ‘jesuit’ sheet. © The Artist. 300 euros I didn’t paint this watercolour last week, as I was very busy teaching one of my Painting Holidays au Chateau de Lanquais, France night-time plein air This watercolour was another of…
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Next week I teach one of my Painting Holidays au Chateau de Lanquais, France I’m currently busy preparing & thus it might be abit difficult to keep this blog’s promise of ‘a painting a week’ (if I hadn’t spent so much time chatting away to myself here in the deafening silence of this blog, then…
Notan Photograph – ‘The Wirly Gates’
‘The Wirly Gates’ 2004 © The Artist. Notan can mean something/nothing as well as dark/light Notan photography? Is the black emptiness? Photography has difficult of reading things in shadows. It frequently makes pictures with black nothingness as shadows… These digital cameras are great for ‘visual thinking’ … working things out in a visual way… kind…
Notan : ‘La Maison Peyarade, Bergerac’
‘La Maison Payarade, Bergerac’ Encre Chine. Tous Droits Reservés I’ve been following some the talk about ‘Notan’ over on Katherine Tyrell’s blog, so I thought I’d post this three-tone drawing. Not quite a Notan I know, as it’s not flat enough. Has perspective & depth rather than flat pattern. I decided to try however to…
Fauvist Barns, Heightened Colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky
this is the second post of ‘fauvist barns’ ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel © The Artist available anti-fauve barns Just updating the post ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ (it’s about the above painting) in which I chatted about ‘anti-fauve’ barns ….trying to keep a barn door rusty brownish red, rather than letting…
Blé en Dordogne
‘Blé & Chemin, Boisse’ 33 x 41 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. sold path through the corn in the sunny dordogne didn’t walk along the tractor tracks, no wish to damage the farmer’s crop enchantment an invitation
L’Orge en Dordogne, sud ouest France
33 x 41 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). SOLD Fields of colour, not quite colour field painting. “When we walked in fields of gold” – Sting
Artists & Ecology #3 : Constable, Corn & the Destruction of Hedgerows
72 x 34 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. sold Constable’s ‘Cornfield’ While now a fresher gale, sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn – Text used by John Constable in exhibition catalogue, for his ‘The Cornfield’ in The National Gallery, London John Constable, “The Cornfield”, painted 1826. Size: 56 by…
Vignoble & Orge, St. Dizier
30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. Post-scriptum 2009 : passed by this place yesterday & was saddened to see that many of the hedges & trees are no longer there. Grubbed out. Gone. they’ve gone mad the tractors & the chain saws aren’t enough the trees have gone now it’s the turn…