A selection of recent paintings
Recent paintings
Evening over the Twelve Pins
The sun is setting over Connemara’s famous Twelve Pins or Bens in watercolour
Acrylics from the Wild Atlantic Way
I’m having a great time painting pictures of the beautiful west coast of Ireland, this time in acrylic.
Lockdown paintings
Like us all I’ve been spending most of my time indoors with just the occasional shop and regular daily exercise. All this has meant quite a lot of painting, ranging from John Hoar DVDs (I was due to go on one of his courses so substituted DVDs instead), my Connemara and Norfolk sketchbooks. Here’s a selection of them.
Heavy cloud over Exmoor
This is a very loose painting where I had enormous fun with water flowing in great puddles over the sky area. I took my lead from a John Hoar painting and in his words, ‘took the courage in my hands and sploshed away. It was great fun and I was happy with the results .
The Bridge in Sepia
This is the iconic Bridge Inn, Topsham in moody sepia. The Bridge is popular with good beer lovers and has been run by the same family for over one hundred years. It’s also the only pub in England that has had an official visit from the Queen! Sepia is a good medium in watercolour to concentrate on tone- they key to any painting.
Giving an impression
I suppose as I improve as a painter that I get better at giving an impression of a subject whether it be a landscape, towns spec or flowers. Here is a quick painting of some flowers, which I did as a demo recently. I wasn’t interested in botanical accuracy but rather I was interested in conveying the ‘bunchiness’ of flowers.
The second painting is looking down Priest Lane towards the Abbey in Pershore, Worcestershire. I chose Sepia to convey the tones which adds, I hope, to a believable composition.
Water, fishing boats and sunrise
Here are two watercolours painted this week. One is of fishing boats at Appledore in North Devon. The other is a sunrise over the Wild Atlantic Way on the west coast of Ireland. Two places that I love.
Three Exmoor watercolours
Three more paintings of the Exmoor area including the churches of George Nympton and Molland. These two were completed in line (bamboo and matchstick pen) and watercolour. 
Painting with John Hoar
I had a great two days last week in North Devon with John Hoar . We did a variety of subjects most of them local. We also did a mix of pure watercolour, line and wash as well as sepia studies for tonal practice. Here are some of the results. 
