...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Posts relating to traditional and contemporary landscape artworks
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my general obsessive search for the weird and wonderful in the world of colour and insatiable thirst for knowledge on a subject I have of course read up about many of the weird and wonderful materials that have been used to provide pigments, gemstones …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I found these lovely zig-zag sheets of Khadi Rag the other day, and decided to paint this series of micro-landscapes. It’s been really interestng working on such a small scale, like tiny naïfs one may find in a locket.
Reading Time: 2 minutes When we left for York to go to the markets the other weekend, it was incredibly misty and frosty, thurning the fields and industrial areas of South Leeds into ‘scapes of grey and white. I am kicking myself now for not taking a large number …
Reading Time: 2 minutes It is a fact which cannot be denied that sometimes things don’t go 100% to plan. I was feeling a little despondent with the feel of “Boulder Gate” as it was not the loose style I was seeking, certainly on the rocks. I decided to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes And some more… I’ve really been beavering away with the watercolours this last couple of weeks. This was a bit of a quick experiment – actually the fourth of a set of quick experients. The original image was posted on the a photography group. This …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been on a bit of a manic painting spree recently to learn and practice watercolour more. There’s been quite a few dead ends (and I may show some of these as posts about the development of what I hope to be better final images, …
Reading Time: 3 minutes After the first attempts at (probaly not the most appropriate scenes) from Kippford, I have tried something different to progress learning more about watercolours. I started with these trees. I’m quite pleased with this, though it is really a quick sketch – trying to get …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick addition to the post from our weekend in Tideswell. While there I did a few pencil sketches inspired by the scenery. This is something I am only just starting to play about with, but here they are.
Reading Time: 2 minutes After coming back from Scotland I have had a play with some painting based on the scenery there, working from the photos I took. This is the view of the sunset from Rockcliffe over Urr Water. In retrospect I think this was always going to …