MY SKETCHBOOKS are valuable source material for paintings.
Although I much prefer to paint on location and better still out doors, ‘en plein air’, often a more formal painting is required or commissioned. Cley next the Sea was one such (below) - sketched after a good waterside walk, sitting on a bench chatting with a WWII Spitfire pilot, it was then used as a reference for a commissioned painting. These are done in my makeshift studio.
But if I have the time, the view excites, there is somewhere comfortable to work and my wife has a good book…there is little more satisfying than an hour or so in relaxed concentration enjoying a view while interpreting it onto a sheet of white paper.
Bibette Head, Alderney was fun (below right). And it was next to the bar...always helps.
Some of these are already in their new homes but others are available as noted in the selection below (prices exclude carriage).
Although I much prefer to paint on location and better still out doors, ‘en plein air’, often a more formal painting is required or commissioned. Cley next the Sea was one such (below) - sketched after a good waterside walk, sitting on a bench chatting with a WWII Spitfire pilot, it was then used as a reference for a commissioned painting. These are done in my makeshift studio.
But if I have the time, the view excites, there is somewhere comfortable to work and my wife has a good book…there is little more satisfying than an hour or so in relaxed concentration enjoying a view while interpreting it onto a sheet of white paper.
Bibette Head, Alderney was fun (below right). And it was next to the bar...always helps.
Some of these are already in their new homes but others are available as noted in the selection below (prices exclude carriage).
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