‘M’ watercolour Quarter Imperial Sheet © adam cope Painting into the dusk. Fading light. Blur & indefinition. When the self feels its way into the soul of the world. The feelings that pass between artist & model.A strictly limited palette. Three colours only. Winsor & Newton. Artists Viridian, Indian Red, Permanent Magenta. The tonality is…
Category: Watercolour paintings
Watercolour paintings from south west France, Dordogne & Lot. Mostly plein-air, colorist, wet on wet, calligraphic & expressive.
Of lawns & high grass
‘Le Village’ Watercolour Quarter Imperial sheet 28 x 38 cm 150 € ex P & P © adam cope May is the time of tending lawns. I like the huge expanse of green in the above painting, a calm foil for the details & foliage clustered around the focal point. A perfectly manicured lawn in…
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mixed media in watercolour painting The term ‘mixed media’ should be mentioned here as well. But then where does mixed media ever stop? Motor car engine & pencil on paper? Definitions can be troublesome. Interesting that the paint manufacturers & merchants use another set of defintions to those of art societies etc. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> transparent &…
Garden, Autumn
Watercolour 28 x 42cm© The Artist. 150 euros via PayPal This was a demonstration piece for teaching painting autumn colour.
Red Vines
‘Plantou #2’- detail 2007 Watercolour. © The Artist.Sold
Watercolour of Vines in Autumn
‘Vers La Gironde’ Watercolour. 42 x 36cm (16,5 x 14,2 inches). © adam cope Watercolour of Vines in Autumn The Gironde is the department of France at the esturary of the Dordogne, past St.Emilion & down to Bordeaux. Wine country.
Watercolour of Merlot Vines
‘Merlot’ Watercolour – Arches Rough 300gms 30 x 40cm (15,8 x 11,8 inches). © The Artist. Watercolour of Merlot Vines Beautiful & long Indian summer here in the Dordogne.
A Prehistoric Shelter at Sergeac, Castelmerle, Dordogne
‘The Abandoned Cradle’ Watercolour. 43 x 36cm © The Artist. Take the footpath from Castelmerle towards La Conquil. Pass La Souqette, the Vézère way down below. These rearing cliffs, overhanging rocks, vertiginous. Wild. Our ancestors lived here thirty thousand years ago. Continous habitation. Now abandoned. Our abandoned cradle. ‘Notre berceau abandonée’.Today, a mute feeling of…
Canoes on the Vézère
Canoes on the Vézère Watercolour. 38 x 46cm (15 x 11 inches). © The Artist. 450 euros framed Typical holiday scene from the Dordogne, paddling down stream, under the cliffs, watching the tree-lined banks & groups of laughing holiday makers going by in bright coloured canoes. My funny & true story … ‘it really DID …
Watercolour of Cliffs – Sauliac sur Cele
‘Sauliac sur Cele’ Watercolour. 28 x 38cm (15 x 11 inches). © The Artist. detail To see more paintings of cliffs & rocks, click on the ‘rock’ category on the right handside. This painting is not far from where I led a painting holiday in France
