Category: Geographical Breakdown

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

This was quite quick to paint but took me all day to plan, so let's talk about planning first.  I've had an idea for a while about doing a painting...

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Orchard Lea, Hartlip

Someone in the village asked me if I'd be interested in painting her house.  I gave her my standard answer, which is that I don't do commissions...

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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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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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Planning Is Everything

No painting for me today.  Instead, I'm going to be spending the afternoon planning paintings to do over the next few days.  I've had a stroll...

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Valdeinfierno In Purple And Orange

That last painting, The Thin Ice, felt like a flop to me but got lots of likes on Facebook and on DeviantArt.  The only good thing it had going for...

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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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