Hadrian’s Wall

25 June 2018

I’d had some feedback that I was good at painting trees, so thought I’d better look for a good tree to paint.  A bit of googling of famous trees got me to this one in the middle of Hadrian’s Wall.

The painting itself is definitely a return to form.  Tree, foreground and sky are all OK but the walls are quite shockingly good.  I cut a sharp pointed corner on an old credit card and scratched out lots of bricks. This is one of those paintings that you need to zoom in on to see at its best.

The worst bit about the painting was a well in the foreground that I made a terrible hash of.  It’s been cropped out from the bottom of the painting.

This one has been framed and is up for sale.