This Candlemas morning (“festa candelarum”, the festival of candles), there was the first ray of sunlight after weeks of heavy rain. The light is again high & strong. I’m yearning for spring & fresh air & sunlight. This watercolour from March last year. Hope that February won’t be rude or glacial! It can be freezing…
Category: Trees
Paintings of trees… with commentary, something of a lovesong.. spring, summer, autumn or winter paintings of trees. How to paint foliage & paint with green.
Poplar Trees in Spring time
this painting’s lay-in first stage WIP I’m getting ready for a big exhibition at the La Maison des Vins de Bergerac. It’s a hige & beautiful space – up to sixty paintings! This large oil from 2010 and spring 2011, finished off in the studio & now framed. Now sold. [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center”…
Lime Grove, Chateau de Beduer
watercolour 15″ x 11″ Early moring, brightearly summer sunshine, see the leaves glowing green-gold. [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/trees”]paintings of trees[/button]
pssttt! – don’t be scared of green!
Homage to green – the green fuse , the living green, the vernal green , the green that oxygenates us & lets us breathe fresh, clean air. When I painted these green watercolours the air was so beautiful with fragent green sappy smells. 🙂 [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/trees”]paintings of trees[/button]
WIP : Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne
WORK IN PROGRESS – WIP ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne’ ETAPE …. En Progres … Oil on Canvas 65 x 54cm (approx 25,5 x 21,5 inches). © The Artist. Le cingle = the meander of the dordogne at Limeuil FINISHED STATE ETAPE FINALE HOMAGE À CÉZANNE Too much like Cézanne? Ahh maitre Cézanne, you…
Spring Greens – WIP : Large Plein-Air Oil
This is a commission 🙂 It’s great to be doing a large plein-air oil again 🙂 It will take several more sessions on site & several more back in the studio. Way bigger than usual, so good to be working ‘out of the habitual box’. Tables & studio easel outside, on the edge of a…
bright spring yellows – Matisse on shock
‘Printemps, Dropt’ Medium Size Oil on Canvas 12 paysage format francais © The Artist. Incredible rebirth of the leaves, yellow gold in the bright white sunlight. The thing is just how do you use colour ? Here’s another painting of the same scene a few weeks earlier, just before the leaves opened, dating from 2007:…
Poplar Grove, Dusk
‘Poplar Grove, Dusk ‘ Oil on MDF panel 33 x 41cm (approx 13 x 16 inches) – 6 figure format francais © adam cope These groves of trees are planted not far from the river Dropt. All straight & square, they are grown for cardboard boxes. I like openness & airiness of the groves. Not…
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