Year: 2021

Footpath, Lower Hartlip Road

Back to the painting after a few days' break.  This is another scene from the village.  Follow that footpath up the hill over the field and you...

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Archway Into Hartlip Church

Enough of these village houses!  I wanted to paint some stones, so it's back to the church to paint this archway again. I first drew the archway...

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Mandy

I've had a few days off and I really should get back to making the most of this break between jobs and doing some painting.  Today I planned five...

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Cuckoo Orchard, Hartlip

Somebody in the village approached me the other day about painting his house.  We had a good long chat and I think he gets what my artwork is...

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Hartlip House

After three days off watching the chess at the FIDE Candidates, I was back in the garden again painting another village scene.  I'm pretty sure the...

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Place Meadow, Hartlip

  It's another Hartlip painting and, just like the last one, it features a house and is named after the house but the centre of interest in terms of...

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Stonehall, Hartlip

I'm still painting Hartlip scenes.  Next up is Stonehall.  There's something I like about houses that are obscured behind trees where even the...

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The Rose And Crown In The Snow

I was out and about in the village yesterday, taking more photos and everybody was coming up to me asking whether I was taking photos of scenes to...

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Kevin, Annoyed

So after the disaster that was Brie In A Chair, I did another drawing straight away.  It's back to another old favourite, Kevin, who I've painted...

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Brie On A Chair

I'm taking a break from the watercolour for a day or two, so I've moved back to figure drawing with the inktense pencils today. First up is one of...

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View From Hartlip Church

And it's another Hartlip landscape!  This is the seventh and last of the Hartlip landscapes that I put together value plans for a while ago.  If I...

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Abstract Beginnings

Yesterday I kicked off an abstract painting.  I put on some masking tape and some directional masking fluid spatters.  Then laid on some nice thick...

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Wisteria Cottage, Hartlip

Still on the Hartlip landscapes and today it's Wisteria Cottage.  Not that I can see much wisteria there if any. The main three colours today were...

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Craiglea And Sanquhar, Hartlip

It's freezing outside so I only have one painting to add to the Hartlip collection today.  I picked this pair of cottages because they were white....

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The Street, Hartlip

Two paintings in one day!  It's as if the hardest bit about painting is the planning and that creating a painting that's already been planned is so...

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Thatch Cottage, Hartlip

And here it is, the first of a series of paintings based on my home village of Hartlip.  This is Thatch Cottage, a cottage that's been rethatched...

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