Month: February 2019

The Day Ends, Springfield, Virginia

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This one was inspired from a Facebook post that I saw only four hours ago of a sunset in Springfield, Virginia. It looks nothing like the original...

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Whoa!

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So, after the last painting was a quinacridone magenta free zone, I had to follow it up quickly with another painting. Something experimental,...

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Grand Teton National Park

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I thought I should go back to basics and paint a normal looking landscape as these were popular on Facebook last year. This one is based on a view...

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Comfortably Numb

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A fourth consecutive painting named after a song title. There's a clip on YouTube of David Gilmour playing a clip of Purple Rain in the middle of...

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Purple Rain

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Today's effort is Purple Rain. I was thinking of doing some sort of blizzard scene as I was in the mood to do a moody sky and to flick paint all...

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Twist In My Sobriety

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A second painting today and it's another abstract with inks. I was struggling to think of a name for it, so just picked the name of a Tania Tikaram...

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Elephant

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I've been thinking for a while about painting an elephant Hazel Soan style and finally got around to it today. The elephant itself was first...

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Horsehead Quarry

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I thought I'd try something different. After checking out some Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube I thought I'd invest in some acrylic inks and have a...

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The Old Man Of Storr

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It's a double painting day today. This time I've gone for a conventional landscape for the first time in a while.  It's the Old Man of Storr on the...

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Sunshine Through The Brambles

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I got the idea for this one yesterday afternoon, staring out of the lounge window as Bradley Walsh was asking "What has the chaser put?"  Not that...

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Colour Charts

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With four new colours joining my palette this week (or five if you count cadmium red, now promoted from associate to full member), I thought I...

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Changes to my palette

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After reading that Hazel Soan book, I’ve made some changes to my palette. I've now got a better understanding of the difference between...

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Freebird Nebula

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I'm waiting patiently for three different yellows to be delivered (raw sienna plus two two new ones - watch this space) so thought I'd have a go at...

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