This is a watercolour of the farm where I stayed when painting in Norfolk last week; some lovely autumn skies. 
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Painting in Norfolk
Famous the world over for its light and huge variety of painterly subjects, I’ve spent two days mainly plein air painting in North Norfolk with John Hoar around Brancaster Staithe and Burnham Overy Staithe. 
Here are the (mixed) results. It’s an inspiring place to paint.
Studies in acrylic
I haven’t painted in acrylic for a while so here are two studies of the Poolbeg Chimneys or Stack as they are colloquially known, Dublin Port. One is of an evening flight heading to the airport and the other a colourful dawn. 
Autumn Walk
There seems to be an autumnal theme in my current paintings. Maybe because we here in the UK have had a unusually warm and sunny summer, I’m driven to think of the beauty of the sudden cooler days and gradual changes of the leaves to vibrant russets, reds and oranges. Anyway, this scene is of the Welsh/Shropshire border near where my oldest and dear friend Mike lives. We went walking here in June. 
Blustery autumn day
I’m enjoying line and wash at the moment. I like doing scratchy trees so here’s a russet coloured autumn day of wind and showers. I do like the autumn. 
Line and wash
Sometimes I like to use a bamboo and matchstick ‘pen’ with Indian ink to create a picture to be then painted with watercolour. A matchstick is much better than a commercially bought pen because if you sharpen it into a wedge you can get both fine and thick lines and you can add texture by shading.
Here’s a picture of Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol UK using this method. 
Two fast watercolours
Here are two quickly painted scenes- by quickly I mean as bold as I can, first wash quickly and confidently applied. Two very different days; a broody, cloudy, showery and windy day for the Windmill at Rye, East Sussex and a bright, clear day with the odd threat of a shower at St John’s Point, Donegal.,
