Aquarelle 28 x 38 cm – approx 15 x 11″ © dam that cope number one of two paintings see painting number two late afternoon light, pale winter, white glinting reflections on the black river
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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…
Intimate Portraits of Artist’s Own Children – Matisse, Cezanne, John, Rembrandt, Chardin, Rubens, Nicholson
‘Telly Fans 10’ by adam cope – sanguine ‘Telly Fans 8’ by adam cope – graphite Intimate Portraits by Artist’s of Their Own Children I overheard on the web some artists saying that they couldn’t possibly do portraits of their own kids as it was ‘too close.’ I don’t agree. Neither did…
Telly Fans 10
funny one this!
Telly fans 9 – Child Portrait Tips
Maybe this looks like what Vally might look like some years on from now? Compare it with ‘Telly Fans 8’ below. Can you see the difference in age? Getting the age right is an essential part of a portrait, especially for a portrait of youth. Portraits of old age are easy in comparison!…
tellyfans 8
quiet pleased with this one 🙂 better copyright but that wont stop anyone from doing whatever they want with this jpeg will it? anyway here goes… ha….. ©
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
River Dropt 2 – Wendell Berry on Local Care of Shared Places
15 x 11″ – 28 x 38 cm Tanglewood. A bird song corridor through an empty land. Sluggish shallow river. Old roots holding the banks together. Old place, old beings. Being quiet here… the Dropt has an intimate & hidden charm, different from the majestic Dordogne with it’s mighty flow. Being quiet here & now…
River Dropt 1
winter’s day lost in fog last places