WORK IN PROGRESS UNFINISHED STATE DETAIL : ‘The Great Sphinx of Giza’ 2008 Watercolour. 60 x 77cm © The Artist.
Category: Watercolour paintings
Watercolour paintings from south west France, Dordogne & Lot. Mostly plein-air, colorist, wet on wet, calligraphic & expressive.
Watercolour of Edfou Temple, Egypt.
WORK IN PROGRESS : Watercolour made in the studio from a quick sketch & some colour notes done on the spot, a reference photo & memory, shortly after my visit to Egypt in 2001. Part of my ongoing & unfinished project… my homage to Egypt the Eternal… :: Carnet de Voyage :: Egypt:: ‘Edfou’…
Self 6 – ‘at the end of the day’
Self #6 – ‘ at the end of the day’ 2008 Watercolour. 24 x 32 cm © The Artist. ‘…at the end of the day.’ Using up paint at the end of the day. Just practising my craft. Painting with speed. Practising painting portaits — quickly. Nothing psychological. It could have been you … or…
‘La Fontaine Guilliérè’
Carrying on with my review of rocks, cliffs & prehistory. Sorry it’s retrospective, but part of how I use this blog is to unfuddle my thinking. Here’s some paintings that I’ve never digitally recorded. Only got a few pre-digital camera badly exposed silver halide photos as records. ‘La Fontaine Guilliérè’ 2000 oil on canvas 86…
Célé Valley Dreaming
‘Célé Valley Dreaming’ 2008 Ink & Watercolour. 23 x 33cm hand made linen rag paper © The Artist. 200 euros
Thoughts without a Thinker
‘Self 5 (why me?)’ Wet on wet Watercolour. 26 x 33cm © The Artist. I was pretty upset here… the puddles of granulating pigment floating & eddying on the page like tears…i’m not being very flattering to myself am i? But that’s how i felt when I painted it. Indeed painting it was a way…
Le Rayon, Monbazillac – 1999
‘Le Rayon, Monbazillac – 1999’ Watercolour. 40 x 27cm © The Artist. Another blast from the past, stripping out the frames (grr, non standard sizes but worth doing as there’s alot of them doing nothing in the storage racks, hélas, well free up the frames & move on hey-ho, hey-ho motivation = move on ).Another…
Raincloud over Monbazillac
Raincloud over Monbazillac 1999 Watercolour. 33 x 24cm © The Artist. Stripping out old fames & replacing with new watercolours for next year’s shows. Here’s an oldie. Have I progressed since 1999? Well I feel more at ease with wet & spontaneous & alla prima watercolours, though I do like the rigour in this one.
St Aubin de Cadelech
‘St Aubin de Cadelech’ Watercolour. 29 x 42cm (16 x 11,5 inches). © The Artist. sold Rows of Cabernet Franc on the heights of the Dropt valley. Sunset, long blue distances turning cobalt violet (series three winsor & newton substance that comes at a price).The silouhouette of Lauzun chateau faintly on the horizon (not that…
Sept Rangs de Cot Rouge
‘Sept Rangs de Cot Rouge’ Watercolour. 28 x 38cm (15 x 11 inches). © The Artist. sold Red colour in autumn vine leaves Seven Rows of ‘Cot Rouge’, a parcel of Cot (better known as Malbec) between fourteen rows of Cabernet Franc & on the otherside, I think there was a parcel of Cabernet Sauvignon…
