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Deserted beach on Barra. 7" x 5" watercolour on 140lb Bockingford Paper.

IT’S GONNA BE JUST BEAUTIFUL!

Here are a few snaps of some recently completed watercolours and one little gouache of a bluetit!

7″ x 5″ watercolour on 140lb paper

I’ve been undergoing some medical treatment in the last few weeks which has been somewhat disruptive to the normal routines, however, I’ve found a way of working around this – painting small!

Jar of flowers painted in watercolour
Wild Flowers in a Jar

They’re all painted on size 5″ x 7″ or 7″ x 5″ watercolour paper (140lb Bockingford or Fabriano) depending on whether it’s portrait or landscape orientation.

 

Deserted beach on Barra. 7" x 5" watercolour on 140lb Bockingford Paper.
Deserted beach on Barra. 7″ x 5″ watercolour on 140lb Bockingford Paper.

It means I can finish the painting in a reasonable timescale even if I lose a couple of days due to side effects etc. Onward and upward!

cottage, Isle of Lewis, watercolour on 140lb Bockingford Paper.
Old Cottage, Ness, Isle of Lewis. 7″ x 5″ watercolour on 140lb Bockingford Paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On completion, all are being listed at VERY reasonable prices on eBay!

5" x 7" watercolour of a cute wee Puffin
5″ x 7″ watercolour of a cute wee Puffin on 140lb Bockingford paper

Check my “For Sale” page link or jump straight over to the current eBay listings.

As a certain politician keeps telling people:

“IT’S GONNA BE BEAUTIFUL”

– i.e., my next painting! –

“BELIEVE ME, IT’S GONNA BE FANTASTIC!”

Watch this space!!!

“IT’S GONNA BE ABSOLUTELY AWSOME!”

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waterlily painting

Waterlily

I’ve spent a very enjoyable couple of days on & off, painting this beautiful lily that is gracing our garden pond at the moment. This is a mixed media painting – watercolour, white chalk and white gouache paint. I’m afraid the delicate, lucid tones of the stamens eluded me! Which points up the fact that Art only imitates nature, it can never portray accurately the amazing delicacy and subtle nuances of light that we see with our eyes. As Picasso famously said: “Art is a lie which makes us understand the truth.” in other words my painting, or anyone else’s for that matter, can only be an approximation; we have to find an equivalent in paint or whatever medium we work in, that will at best enable us to mimic on paper or canvas the effect of light .

waterlily painting
“Waterlily” Watercolur on Arches paper, (9″ X 6″ (approx)

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these…” (Matthew 6:28,29)

Prints of this work are available via

 “Redbubble” or “FineArtAmerica”