‘Self Portrait with a New Haircut’ Watercolour quarter imperial – arches rough 300gms © The Artist. Pulling faces again… I caught it for an instant whilst painting this portrait. That look of surprise & vanity & curiosity that follows after ahaircut, when you peer cautiously into the mirror to see weither the hair cut is…
Category: Watercolour paintings
Watercolour paintings from south west France, Dordogne & Lot. Mostly plein-air, colorist, wet on wet, calligraphic & expressive.
Figs II
‘Figs II’ 32 x 24 cm. Watercolour. Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold I forgot to mention the garlic in the previous recipe. Fry some garlic along in the duck’s breast. When the meat is done (rosy… sometimes I add a splash of raspberry vinager which then turns this recipe into a kind of…
Figs
32 x 28 cm. Watercolour, Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold Figs from the garden.Thinking about how to cook them. Vegetarian resolve goes to pot. The South West is the land of THE DUCK. Here’s how I’d do them: Slow fry the duck’s breast in a frying pan, Cook till rosy red but still…
Sunflowers III
‘Sunflowers III’24 x 32 cm.Watercolour. Lana 220GMS© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur).SOLD
Sunflowers – the Last of The Stragglers
‘Last of The Stragglers’ 50 x 41 cm watercolour. Arches 180 GMS. © The Artist. SOLD I’ve been watching a field of late flowering sunflowers. Normally all the sunflowers are harvested by the end of July, and then afterwards, sometimes there might be a random second flowering of the self-sown seeds scatttered here or there.…
Early Watercolours circa 1986
‘Trees in the Fog, (England)’ watercolour & gouache, circa 1986 bockingford, 45 x 33cm © The Artist. Foggy morning outside this morning. We’ve recently been moving things about ‘chez-nous’ in the endlessly on-going restoration work on our old, leaky house. bucketing it in through th estudio roof. About three insches floding teh other day. And…
Albas, point de vue surplombant Le Lot
‘Albas 1’ ‘Albas 2’ ‘ Albas 3’ Watercolour 28 x 38 cm. Quarter ‘imperial’ sheet Arches rough 300 gms. © The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Looking down over a meander in a river Sunny evening point from a rock outcrop overlooking a meander in the river Lot, the…
Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2007
Last weekend was the ‘European Days of Heritage’. It’s a wonderful chance to see some of the sites that aren’t always open to public or just not very well known. Visiting out-of-the-way ‘manoirs’ & ‘chartreuses’ always surprises me. Not just the amount of restoration & rebuilding that has gone on in the Dordogne these last…
‘Le Pigeonnier’
28 x 38 cm. Watercolour – arches rough 300GMS © The Artist. available Lovely sun drenched high pressure these last two weeks. Clear as a bell. The invisibility, for want of a better word, of the high scintillating light inspires a palette of transparent pigments – cobalt, helio turquoise, winsor lemon, raw sienna – then…
‘The Railings’ – Donjon Sarlardais, Lanquais.
28 x 38cm. Watercolour. Arches Rough 300gms © The Artist. A Painting Demonstration This was a demonstration painting from last week’s painting course in the Chateau de Lanquais. I’ve frequently commented on the importance of demonstrations. If you want to learn to paint, go see a demo from someone who knows how to paint. Worth…
