Quickies but fun to do......
We've been in Halifax 'Gateway to the Dales' (?) for a few days heading up and over the heights on Monday past places of previous sketching, even painting. But it was windy and cold and we wanted to look, wander and savour. No sketching until a colleague prompted action. Tuesday we were pointed towards Hebden Bridge. Canal, river and good sensitive regeneration. Pretty though the valley and water are, Hebden Bridge suffers hugely from flooding but as ever there is a strong local spirit to not let it beat them. Flood alleviation very much in evidence and making places for people to visit and enjoy as one of my two shows.
Quickies but fun to do......
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Or ‘rapid painting’. Most painters take many hours over their work, returning to a piece to finish, amend, add to it. It’s a valid part of the process. Many also, and I’m one, like to work fast although increasingly I’m enjoying working on those quick, initial, spontaneous pieces and finding the two processes converging. A colleague and I joined several hundred painters in London – we went to Trafalgar Square.
The results were exhibited, and some sold, in Chelsea Old Town Hall on the following day. Lots of admiring tourists, fellow painters who happened to pass and others stopped to chat so I was ‘forced’ to work slower, check, think and look. I chose my location having sketched the view of The National Gallery through from The Mall some years ago…..but that was in April when the trees were not in leaf. Ugh, couldn’t see The National Gallery. A quick phone photo and some artist’s licence…… Here’s the 2014 sketch and 3 progress photos from my phone. |
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February 2019
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