‘Vignobles, Dordogne 1’ watercolour 28 x 38 cm (approx 11 x 15 inches). © The Artist. sold This autumn is particularly sunny. Blues skies, the leaves have stayed on the vines longer than usual. A winey golden glow, a haze hangs over the hills. This painting from a few weeks ago, now the leaves have…
Category: paintings of vines
Paintings of vines, vignoble, wine fields in south France. Terriors de Bergerac, Cahors & Monbazillac AOC. Colourist, expressive, authentic
Vine Paintings from France
‘Côtes de Duras’ Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © The Artist. Golden days in the autumn vines, the leaves singing in the wind. Plein air. Don’t forget to smile at the landscape when you leave, not always as evident as when you arrive. It was windy and…
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…
Gnarled Old Vine Stocks
‘Les Cornes du Diable’ – Cahors A.O.C. 50 x 31 cm watercolour © adam cope Fields of gnarled old wine stocks. Archaic. Tormented. These vine stocks (‘céps’) are pruned (‘La Taille’) in the mediterrean manner, much lower to the ground than the Atlantic manner, which is the widesest spread (‘Taille Guyot’)… This way of pruning…
Magazine Article & The End of Winter!
‘Lou Plantou’ Oil. 2004 61 x 50 cm ©adam cope sold [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/Vines”]paintings of vines[/button] France’s leading wine magazine Terre de Vinspublished a nice article about me, a painter who paints vineyards Souvent les gens jugent un tableau à première vue, mais come le vin, l’œuvre si elle est réussie doit permettre…
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…
Painting of Vines in Autumn – Large Size Plein-air Painting
‘Semillion, Labadie, Monbazillac’ Large Size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 26 x 32 inches) ©adam cope sold Here’s the finished state. Here’s the link to its Work In Progress : Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting.I went out the next day for a second plein-air session with a mental note ‘yellow &…
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…
Vines near Boisse
‘Vines near Boisse, Dordogne, France’ Medium Size Oil – Canvas. 51 x 41 cm (20 x 16 inches). © adam cope alla prima This was done in one session, no corrections.. had to paint very quickly as it was my turn to pick the children up good clouds in this medium size oil painting of…
Two Parcels of Vines, Three Cherry Trees
‘Two Parcels of Vines, Three Cherry Trees’ oil on panel 30 x 40cm (approx 16 x 12 inches). © adam cope