my hols!

just a postcard from my holiday in Gran Canaria, warm sea and those wonderful palm trees!

Portraits

we started out looking at hands, but I wanted to focus on the way hands move and work, so here we have some 'action' drawings, look closely and you will see a lot more going on than you thought!

A character from Reepham....what gorgeous pics!

10th November at Cawston

yet more trees, but getting more 'painterly' all the time, so you can see ideas here taken from or based on photos, but maturing into something more specific to try to engender a feeling of a certain atmosphere, defined by the colours and quality of light in the image.

back to the portraits...

so here you are just a couple from yesterday, the others came out out of focus so I will try again so watch this space....

yet more trees....these are from the Marsham groups.

I try to put everything up on the boards as you know, don't cherry pick, but here I have put individual photos up of a handful of paintings just because they seemed so painterly to me, and have techniques and atmosphere about them which is just a bit special. If you are in one of my groups you will know how they have been arrived at, and why there might be a slightly unusual glow about them, but I won't give away our secrets by identifying them here!
What I think is so special is that they do not look as if they are copies of photos, of course they aren't, but they look as if they are the result of genuine thinking artistic endeavour, which they are of course.

Marsham Trees and Forests.