one of many in a series – just for fun 😉 ” A perfect beauty of a sunflower! ” exepert from ‘Sunflower Sutra’ by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Watercolour paintings
Watercolour paintings from south west France, Dordogne & Lot. Mostly plein-air, colorist, wet on wet, calligraphic & expressive.
Sunflowers 3
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.” – Helen Keller
Sunflowers 2
number two in a series… some previous watercolours of sunflowers : ask about buying a print of this watercolour sunflowers circa 1997 – Van Gogh 1889 – Who ‘owns’ subject matter?
Sunflowers 1
here comes a series of paintings of sunflowers. William Blake : Ah! Sunflower Ah! sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller’s journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from…
Gates at Beduer
blues skies nothing but blue skies! see how the green rises up to met the blue sky
Watercolour by Candle Light/value study
… and now for the candlestick, of course 😉 w & n neutral tint…. great for value studies in watercolour
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…
Roses at Beduer
‘Ronsard Roses at Beduer’ watercolour 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © adam cope Painted at Chateau de Beduer as a demonstation whilst teaching at Chateaux Painting Holidays, France . This old fashion rose is named after the French Renaissance poet Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) Mignonne, allons voir si la rose A Cassandre…
Liorac
forest landscape, no features, rolling hills dordogne forest near the Village de Constant
Night Time Watercolour of an Urban Scene
‘Sarlat – 2 Heure le Matin’ Aquarelle 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © Adam Cope