A fairly classic ‘Block-in’ The lay-in phase comes after the conception phase (where you have the idea or see the painting in your mind’s eye) & the composition stage (where you work out what goes where & how if fits together). I find that getting the major relationships between the colours painted early on in…
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 : Sunset 31 Dec – Photographing Paintings & Retouching Plein-Air small formats.
WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP) Sunset 31 Dec – after session in the field and two retouching sessions in the studio 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Sunset 31 Dec – after first session in the field 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Photographing…
Watercolour of The Great Sphinx of Giza
WORK IN PROGRESS UNFINISHED STATE DETAIL : ‘The Great Sphinx of Giza’ 2008 Watercolour. 60 x 77cm © The Artist.
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’…
WIP : Winter Sunset
BTW, WIP = Work in Progress ‘Winter Sunset’ finished state 30 x 40 cm oil on panel © The Artist. 150 € -possibily of taking in sterling or US dollars via Paypal unfinished state Painting in sub-zero temperatures a month ago…finished off in studio, the gradients of light were wrong, there wasn’t such an abrupt…
2 Rangs de Malbec- finished state
‘2 Rangs de Malbec’ – FINISHED STATE oil on canvas 36 x 48 cm (8F) wip = work in progree alla prima = first take, one session, finished in one go pein-air = sur la motif, sur la vif, on location, on the spot , from observation in the field, sometimes called wrongly called ‘impressionism’…
2 Rangs de Malbec – UNFINISHED STATE
‘2 Rangs de Malbec’ -UNFINISHED STATE oil on canvas 36 x 48 cm (8F) sold Unfinished state – I could say that about myself… ‘work in progress’; hummm. my fauvist desires Actually I did this one a week ago. But since then I’ve been too busy with other obligations & not had the time to…
14 Rangs de Cabernet Franc – tableau de vignoble – painting of vines
’14 Rangs de Cabernet Franc’ Oil on Canvas 25 F (81 x 65 cm, 32 x 26 inches approx) © The Artist. SOLD ’14 Rangs de Cabernet Franc’ – 14 rows of Cabernet Franc, being the name of the type of vine. This cepage is not the wide spread in the Bergerac Appellation to my…
‘Le Cingle de Tremolat’ 2003
‘Le Cingle de Tremolat’ 2003 Huile sur Toile © Adam Cope Grand Format approx 150 x 100 cm painting, photography & postcards/plein air. Carrying on with this rambling musing about painting, photography & postcards/plein air….Describing something of the process by which I arrived at this (popular) oil painting might be of interest… or not (deafening…
Bergerac Waterfront #3 (finished state)
44 x 56 cm (17″ x 22″approx) Oil on Panel.© The Artist. 450 € Well, this is about as far as I can take this one (I think…when a painting is knocking about in the studio, I sometimes see many more other things that might possibly be done). It’s what I call a ‘large small’…
