Category: Colour Keys

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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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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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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The Thin Ice

After the disaster that was The Brimham Rocks, I wasn't happy.  I wanted to chase the frustrations out of my system by bashing out a second...

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The Brimham Rocks

Today's subject is The Brimham Rocks, a rock formation somewhere near Harrogate in North Yorkshire.  My rocky paintings have been pretty good this...

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Richard Feynman

I had another read of my Charles Reid book last night (Painting By Design) and saw a couple of his videos  on YouTube this morning, so thought it...

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Moose On The Phoenix Trail

Reading that George Blacklock book during the week I started to think about how artists like Dali, Mageitte and Blacklock himself have common theme...

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The Old Man Of Tarsuinn

Today's subject is the Old Man of Tarsuinn, another rocky formation but this time closer to home on the Isle of Arran. Looking through my swatch...

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The Hoodoo Watch

The weather was good enough today to spend a bit of time painting properly in the garden.  The subject matter is a set of hoodoos.  These are weird...

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Life On Venus

I needed to do some painting this week.  I enjoy doing portraits with markers and figure drawing with inktense pencils but painting is my bread and...

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The Cheetah Woman

After the painting experiment two days ago that I unwrapped yesterday, I had an overnight think and decided that I was going to press ahead and...

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