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…
Category: WIP work in progress
Paintings in various states of finish & unfinish. Step by step lessons in how to paint in oils. Half-finished watercolours.
WIP : compositional sketch & tonal ‘notan’
WIP ….WORK IN PROGRESS – watercolour – a tonal ‘notan’……WIP I’ve been working on a large oil painting these last three weeks. A commission. It’s 130 x 81 cm – approx 51 x 32 inches. Bigger than my usual size. Good to be doing something different. A lot of work, which I’ll post as WIPs…
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…
WIP: Lay-in, Large Oil, Plein Air
WORK IN PROGRESS – WIP 81 x 65 cm (approx 32 x 26 “) This large work in progress from last year… again now is the time the poplars are in bloom… ‘bronzage’, with their bronze crimson yellow catkins on white-grey-violet trunks with yellow fungus… Why so big? Why o why why? Humanly impossible to…
WIP – Pechers de Vignes, Finished State
‘Pechers de Vignes 1’ – Finished State Medium Size Oil on Canvas 15 F 2009 ©adam cope WIP = Work In Progress These lovely trees seem to have an ‘inner fire’ in autumn, as if they were lit up from within. Beautiful tree, I’ve planted one in my garden 🙂 Confess to being happy with…
Chromatic Black in the Colourist Palette
WORK IN PROGRESS – UNFINISHED STATE ‘Mistletoe’ medium size oil on canvas 15 F ©adam cope Chromatic Black in the Colourist Palette Experimenting with a new mix for ‘black’. Lets call it a ‘chromatic black’ (as does Dan Smith oil paints) in the hope that it’s more colour friendly than soot (lamp black)& burnt bones…
painting of the dordogne river in winter – UNFINISHED STATE
UNFINISHED STATE WIP work inprogress ‘Ilots, Pontours, Dordogne – 2’ UNFINISHED STATE Medium Size Oil on Canvas 70 x 33 cm ©Adam Cope Actual Size Detail – to give you an idea of how the paint is applied Palette of muted winter browns in weak sunlight. Bright ultramarine reflections of the sky on still waters.…
Painting of Vines in Autumn – Large Size Plein-air Painting
‘Semillion, Labadie, Monbazillac’ Large Size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 26 x 32 inches) ©adam cope sold Here’s the finished state. Here’s the link to its Work In Progress : Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting.I went out the next day for a second plein-air session with a mental note ‘yellow &…
WIP : Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting
WORK IN PROGRESS _ UNFINISHED STATE ‘Semillion – Labadie, Monbazillac’ Large Size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 26 x 32 inches) ©adam cope Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting The vigorous semillion still have their leaves on the south & south west facing slopes. They turn to a pure shinning yellow-gold (cadimum…
Le Forêt de Biron, Dordogne
‘Le Forêt de Biron’ Medium Size Oil on Canvas 65 x 50cm (approx 25,5 x 20 inches). © adam cope The forest is in flower, mauves of heathers & yellows of plantagenesta (broom, the heraldic flower of the Plantagent dynasty). Down in the deep dark wood (guffalos), the eiry ‘brame’ , the wailing of the…