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Cadwith Cove Cornwall
Cadwith Cove Cornwall
15 cm x 26 cm acrylic on card
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Monday, 29 July 2013
No.11 Pednandrea St.Just II
15 cm x 18 cm acrylic on paper.
Another of the views from the back decking. I added the cow at home, as slow moving as they are they're easier to draw quickly than paint.
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Lands End
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Kynance Cove II. Painting From Photographs.
29 cm x 20 cm acrylic on watercolour paper
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We were working from photographs in class this week and I
used this picture from a much visited site I have painted at many times in
Kynance Cove Cornwall.
Why paint from photographs at all?
Photographs are a great reference as to what was actually there and can
so often be the only way of recording what may have been a fleeting effect. The
subject could be moving so fast, the lighting conditions fading quickly, or the
opportunity to paint just not possible.
Use your own photos.
Using other people’s photographs lacks so many other additions to the
scene. You were never there and the photograph is all you have to go
on, at most your painting will be a competent copy. A photograph cannot call to
mind the experience, the smells, the sounds and the weather that all go into
the creation of a piece of work. I still recall these experiences from looking
at many of my outdoor paintings, but find it hard to remember even snapping a
photo
Don’t be a slave to copying.
Lose the detail, alter the edges, colour, tones and shift around the
composition to suit the painting not the photograph. Don’t feel the need to
copy everything. Shadows and light can be bleached and black. True colours and
contrast are easily lost in the cameras effort to record light and dark.
If you are you are using the camera to gather information to paint at a later
date, it’s a good idea to make notes or do quick colour studies as well.
Set yourself a time limit
I find this to be one of the most important things to do if I have to
use a photograph. If I paint outdoors I know I’m usually done in a couple of
hours. However the temptation with a photograph is to keep going because the
weather or the light is not changing. The shadows are not going to disappear,
or the colour and values alter. Don’t be tempted to take your time, chances are
the painting will become overworked with far too much detail and lose any
vitality you strived to attain.
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Mousehole
This painting is part of a step by step demonstration. The last in a four part series for Leisure Painter magazine, part one is out now in the June edition.
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Using Acrylic Paints Like Watercolour
20 cm x 16 cm acrylic on 140 lb watercolour paper.
Using acrylic paint in a watercolour technique. An illustration for a forth coming article with Leisure painter magazine.
Friday, 16 November 2012
Monday, 2 January 2012
Watercolour Studies of Cornwall
Kynanve Cove 21cm x 14cm watercolour on 140lb paper
Cornish Lane 15cm x 15cm sketchbook
Monday, 10 October 2011
One week in Cornwall.
Just back from a week painting, drawing and walking along the West Penwith coast of Cornwall. The first stop was St. Ives where we could have just walked into summer it was so hot. I managed to get some sketches done on the beach.
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Revisiting Penlee Lifeboat Paintings.
Carry Me Home.
35cm x 35cm x2cm. Mixed media on board
It’s hard to believe that it’s 30 years since the Penlee lifeboat disaster. It’s a subject I keep returning to in the disbelief of the heroism shown that night by the crew of the lifeboat.
On an entirely different note, the print fair for this weekend has had the Saturday cancelled, ‘due to circumstances beyond our control’. However the Sunday goes ahead as planned.
1981: Lifeboat crew missing after mission
A desperate search is underway for eight members of a life boat crew missing feared dead off the Cornish coast.
All contact has been lost with the crew of RNLI Penlee lifeboat, Soloman Browne, which was answering a distress call in treacherous weather conditions last night.
The men were giving assistance to Union Star whose crew reported engine failure eight miles east of Wolf Rock Lighthouse, south-west Cornwall.
Last contact with the Penlee crew was made last night shortly after reports it had rescued four of the eight people aboard the Union Star.
But this morning the vessel was found broken into small pieces.
Seven bodies have been recovered from the water.
The rescue attempt was taking place in winds coming from the south east at hurricane force 12, gusting to 90 knots and the sea reaching 60ft high.
Many of the crew, volunteers made up of fishermen among others, were from the close-knit fishing community of Mousehole.
Local men and those from neighbouring stations have joined a major sea and air search alongside a naval helicopter, life boats and fishing vessels.
Shock
They have been searching since the early hours of this morning and pledged to continue indefinitely despite waning hopes the men will be found alive.
The community is described as being 'numb with shock' as the Penlee lifeboat has been on station for 21 years and the crew were all experienced.
But the conditions last night were so poor that in spite many attempts a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter was unable to lift off any of the coaster's crew.
This morning the Union Star is upturned and washed ashore at the bottom of cliffs.
It is understood she launched from Denmark ten days ago and was travelling to Ireland with a cargo of fertilisers.
There is speculation the Solomon Browne may have collided with the hull of the Union Star, with many ruling out a capsize because this type of boat is subject to regular checks.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Plein air, on the way to St. Just
Today's picture from Cornwall a couple of weeks ago. Back on the main road from the coast path waiting for my lift to Cape Cornwall later that morning.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Plein Air at Mousehole
Finally...the camera and the computer have decided to accept images at last, after a change of cable, been trying for nearly two weeks. I did a series of walks in Cornwall but before starting out for Lamorna, I had a little mooch around Mousehole, one of my starting points on the coast road. This was one of the quiet lanes that fell away to the sea.
I usually start these small paintings with a pencil layout or plan of the picture and move straight to the block in where it looks like a jigsaw of light and dark, with an approximation of the colours I want to use for the overall light effect. Lastly I work within the shapes adding just enough here and there, then finishing with accents of light and colour. Working small like this, (20cm x 14cm) on my pochade box normally takes an hour and a half or there abouts
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Studio Update
Added the finishing touches to a small 1ft square piece I had put to one side some time ago. I was probably still enthused by the light on the water at Angelsey last week . Anyhow, I finally managed to push this piece to a conclusion. I find it really does helps to turn them against the wall for however long it takes if it becomes a struggle to resolve the image.... that said, I think I should get it framed and get it behind glass before I change my mind again and start to fiddle.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Studio Update
Just completed another of the larger pieces for the summer show in Parkgate on the Wirral, (61cm x61cm). This is part of the coast series which seems to be my ongoing project. I am currently looking to develop other areas for painting as much for the change of subject as well as the challenge, but the wilder places are where I think I will always return.
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Studio Update 2
Came across a couple more oil sketches from Kynance Cove that I thought I had left in Cornwall so I decided to start these two new pieces. To be honest I got a lot further in this first session than I normally would have. Some days it just clicks and your in that zone where even the accidents add a little to the work. Anyway I decided to press the save button on these pieces and let them dry before I attack them again.
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