tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13978374046951319552024-03-16T01:10:06.150+00:00Clare Bowen ArtistContemporary Impressionist English oil painterClare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.comBlogger530125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-26957649184211413452019-09-05T06:25:00.000+01:002019-09-05T20:41:48.464+01:00#486 'Red Sails' <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Red Sails' was painted in our cottage in Staithes (North Yorkshire). A dream view of the sea and lots of nautical pieces in the house. The boat has a lovely shape silhouetted in the window and I enjoyed painting the light around it and through the sails. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just found out I have been preselected for the <b>Royal Institute of Oil painters</b> at the Mall Galleries. Next round and I'm in their annual exhibition - fingers crossed!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am off to <b>Venice</b> tomorrow for a 3 week painting trip! Very excited for all the paintings that will come and (ice-cream to eat!) and hope you might join me on my website blog :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clare</span>Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-31032245935197846432019-09-04T21:39:00.002+01:002019-09-04T21:46:17.429+01:00#485 'Brezetta'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Painting in Haslemere High Street, on the green with the busy traffic slowing down to see what we were doing! It was to publicise our yearly exhibition. I painted a model for the first time and really enjoyed it! Especially being outside with the sunshine lighting the side of her body like a halo.</span><br />
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-30415648440747944992019-08-28T21:47:00.000+01:002019-08-28T21:47:01.423+01:00#484 Lifeboat Station, Mersea Island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the first painting I did with Graham in Essex, I choose a low horizon line to emphasis the dramatic windy sky. I drew and re drew the Coastguard building in different areas on the board and also different sizes. It was the first time there and it takes a while to settle into a place. It was worth redrawing as the composition is so important and at the early stage its easy to change!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I use a Pro Arte Stirling round brush to draw the initial composition and the colour I choose to draw in is connected to the painting colours. For this one its a deep browny red colour, similar to the lifeboat building. So if any drawing bits show through they link in with the final painting.</span><br />
<br />Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-54416762163330174952019-08-23T10:14:00.001+01:002019-08-23T10:14:27.960+01:00#483 Boats at West Mersea Island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent the day in Essex with a painter I admire called Graham Webber. We painted side by side and it was a real treat! I loved watching him work and chatting art all day :-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes it feels very solitary as a painter but when these sort of days happen it feeds the artistic soul! And also gives me reassurance that the stuff I think and do as an artist is not alone for example taking photos for reference. Gra</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ham had his big Canon camera with him and was not abashed about taking photos as an aid memoire for back in the studio. It can often be frowned upon to use a photo to work from but as we discussed if you use them as a tool then why not!! So you are not doggedly copying but using it or several of them to help compose and colour your painting. Sometimes if there is a fleeting light on my subject or cloud formation I will take a photo in case I want to use it later. It can be hard to record and translate everything when doing a plein air.</span><br />
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-90590664494140211132019-08-21T16:39:00.000+01:002019-08-21T16:39:19.899+01:00#482 Worcestershire Hills<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were recently staying with friends in the countryside near Kidderminster. I've not been before and I loved the patchwork of hills and sheep grazing in the foreground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I drew the scene and took photos so I was able to produce this painting in the studio. I choose the point of the sun being below the horizon but just glowing some last colour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't copy the sketch completely but moved the trees and enlarged the strip of distant hills at that was important to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used a Loxely canvas clear gesso primed - its linen colour, useful as a mid-tone for a sunset which is generally a bit darker tone than a daytime painting. Nice to let some of the linen colour show through in the painting.</span>Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-49927243481380832082019-08-14T13:08:00.000+01:002019-08-14T13:09:14.923+01:00#481 'Trundle' <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have painted this area many times, what draws me back? I like to feel the space and distance - and little glimmer of sea in the distance. Plus the familiar shape of the Isle of Wight. To capture of the undulating shapes of the hills is not easy. I used brush strokes to describe the planes. </span><br />
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<br />Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-74016174700587652002019-08-13T14:51:00.001+01:002019-08-13T14:51:37.661+01:00#480 'Sunflower and Buttercups' & Daily Painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had an hour to spare in between commitments. It would have been easy to think - I don't have enough time to paint. But it made me focus and work quickly and with intent, no procrastinating! It's come out and fresh and lively. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I committed to a year of 'Daily Painting' in 2016. Where I painted small and often tackling a wide variety of subjects like cupcakes, shoes, jugs and flowers. It was such fun and so helpful for my development of skills and confidence. I recommend Carol Marines book on Daily Painting. It's a gem!</span>Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-76546505093205915082019-08-10T09:29:00.000+01:002019-08-11T08:06:49.452+01:00#479 'Bosham Creek' & Artist Life en plein air...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To give you an idea of what sometimes happens when I am searching for a subject....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First stop off the A3 going south near Clanford, I'd seen the area before and wanted to look with sunlight. But not inspiring enough to paint. so I continued to the coast, I usually start looking from the closest place to begin with which is Langstone Harbour, looking for the right combination of tide, light and boats. This time the tide was too high so there wasn't enough compositional elements. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I moved onto Emsworth Harbour, the best bit there was on the mud contra jour but it wasn't what I fancied so moved on again, to Bosham Creek. This was just right, the tide level, the gorgeous sky. But I didn't have the board that would suit the subject - it needed to be a long panoramic shape, I tried to make do with a traditional landscape shape board but it didn't work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So moved on again to Bosham Harbour. The tide was just right as I arrived which didn't leave me time to set up and paint it. I tried but the wind was very gusty and knocked my easel over while I had my back turned all my paint from my palette garage fell onto the road, I tried to scrap it up and re use it but there was too many bits in it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By then the water was at my feet and the the composition had disappeared. I remembered it enough to draw so it would remind me to return and try a paint again...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Driving home I didn't feel too dejected with no painting to show for my efforts as there were two subjects found and I would return the next day to try again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I arrived earlier at the Bosham Creek and there was no water as the tide was so far out, the water looked miles away. But I decided to set up all my equipment, it was a bit of a mission as I had two pochards with me - I was going big!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">80x40cm en plein air is not to be sniffed for me, one of my biggest to date I think. My usual pochade was way too small to hold it. So I used a half french pochade and my open box m as the palette - see pic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent time on the composition, being a big painting I wanted it to be dynamic and strong. I liked the S shape of the water and emphasised it. It was changing incredibly quickly within 15 mins it was starting to flood the area and you couldn't see the S shape anymore!</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I didn't even pause to mix paint before I started and put the water and land in so I had a starting point. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Near the end of the painting I saw some little sail boats came out and they worked perfectly against the dark of the boat house in the distance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sky wasn't as good as the day before so I changed it back in the studio to the big clouds and lovely light. </span>Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-45121667075774112722019-08-07T17:46:00.000+01:002019-08-07T17:46:30.969+01:00#478 'Sunflowers in Glass Jug'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fancied another go at these lovely blooms! Using a sky colour as a background - Kings Blue Deep and Cerulean mixed together. On a bigger canvas - 16x17" </span>Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-89716181293182787632019-07-30T17:47:00.003+01:002019-07-31T20:43:17.776+01:00#477 'Boats at Dell Quay' & Teaching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The morning session I helped them all get settled and gave them as much information as they could take, so I didn't really get a chance to paint myself. The afternoon was calmer after a big lunch of fish and chips and a pint of Guinness for Mick! I had time to do a little boat painting, using short flat 'Ultimate Bristle ' Rosemary and co brushes - my favs at the mo. and making each brush stroke count.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think one of the main things people struggle with is tonal variations in colour. Pre mixing colours & tones (light and dark versions) before starting to paint, my students said it really helped. I do it for nearly all my paintings and helps me feel on top of it, use more paint to paint with, it colour harmonises as I mix my pre mixed colours together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you get a chance to comment on here I would appreciate knowing what you find hard in painting - especially plein air, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">to help me with future teaching and what to write on this blog!</span><br />
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-39544895532020225932019-07-29T09:26:00.000+01:002019-07-29T09:26:33.313+01:00#476 'The North Downs'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An apt flower with all this sunshine and heat! I seem to paint flowers better when they are in the garden instead of inside my studio with sunshine falling on them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chunking together petal shapes not painting individuals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cadmium Yellow deep a useful colour & mixed with Cerulean - for the background.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The composition took so long to arrange and paint and repaint - over an hour of doing this. But it pays off, and I like how it fills the edges and suits the boldness of the flower.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Also looking at the</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> ellipse brown centres, drawing them correctly and not to even shapes across the canvas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I painted this subject this time last year. I like going back to a place and painting it again as the knowledge and experience from the first time is there and helps inform the next go. (in theory!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I liked the willow trees and their reflections in the water, the cows for life, and the water reeds to foreground interest. </span><br />
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-64856014806445965492019-07-22T15:44:00.000+01:002019-07-22T15:46:40.732+01:00#473 West Wittering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A commission. I don't do many, as I tend not to advertise, but I'm willing to do them if people ask. This one was for a ladies 50th her siblings got together to buy it for her as a surprise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sadly they didn't give me much time so had to go when it wasn't sunny! This was actually my second attempt the first was blowing a hoolie and awful, at least this time it was atmospheric and the sun came out for 10 minutes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They ended up buying another one I did from a photograph of sunny West Wittering! At least they were happy :-)</span><br />
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-82999819173376664782019-07-19T16:11:00.003+01:002019-07-19T16:22:07.337+01:00#472 'The Four Sisters, Morston' 10x12"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This painting was the only one in Norfolk I did where the sunlit my subject instead of side or contra jour, it creates quite a different look. I enjoy the rich colours and those reflections!</span></div>
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<br />Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-21333420424880529082019-07-17T18:34:00.000+01:002019-07-17T18:34:28.570+01:00#471 'Mortson Quay' 11x14"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I timed the paint to be in-between tides, but the water rushed in so quickly I painted the edges of the banks first so I had a pleasing shape before it disappeared. (see picture below for how the water looked when I finished)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contra jour light, around 8am. I used a pre-stained board with Burnt Sienna, very light in tone but gives a warm base to work on. Especially the lights show up straight way - on a whit</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e board much harder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't put all the boats in as the size board couldn't take it, editing out to make the composition work.</span><br />
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-36027583309984477482019-07-15T16:41:00.004+01:002019-07-15T16:50:26.070+01:00#470 'Sunday Sailing, Morston'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quite tricky to find a composition that worked with lots of comings and goings of boats and people because it was a sunny Sunday morning. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was there with the ROI (Royal Institute of Oil painters) and the IEA (institute of East Anglian painters.) A painting day with lots of amazing artist, really inspiring to see how they worked and paint with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I liked this National Trust hut silhouetted with the contra jour sun. Everything was high key and bight. Lots of interesting activity as well, the boat sail was a bonus! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I kept it loose and sketchy wanting it to feel fresh and lively, to suit the day.</span><br />
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-40636436426371959812019-07-12T12:55:00.001+01:002019-07-12T12:55:09.270+01:00#469 'Wells Next to Sea, Norfolk' 11x14"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had arrived in North Norfolk the previous night and I was keen to explore this area which I've not visited before. It was raining and grey I could see there was lots of subject fodder but my mind was getting in the way. I did a painting in the morning which I haven't finished yet but then had an amazing opportunity to paint with David Curtis, he has been plein air painting for over 50 years!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Driving down to the coast I thought I'd check out Langstone first before I went further along the coast towards Bosham. But this scene grabbed me and I could envisage it on the upright format. I knew I didn't have long before the sun would be out of my picture and the tide was rapidly emptying! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started blocking in the main elements that are going to change. I put the horizon in first just above a 3rd up and then the boats. The clouds made a lovely pattern around the sun which I sketched in. Also the shape of the mud flats I like the little opening of water which leads the eye in. </span></div>
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Clare Bowen Artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119725061472258102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397837404695131955.post-23181701894339190812019-07-01T06:50:00.000+01:002019-07-01T06:50:58.282+01:00#464 Cows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A quick sketch, I saw them all through the window of my studio while I was painting something else at the time but couldn't resist them. So I crept out not wanting to disturb as they are so curious and friendly.</span><br />
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Clambering over dewy wet grass some of it as tall as me in search of an inspiring composition and scene....Morning light with the greens so bright plus the gate and reflections, worth a paint!<br />
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A canvas bigger than usual 35x45cm as I want to challenge myself which I do with so many greens to mix and get right, focus on cool and warm, light and darks. Considering there isn't much to the composition I'm pleased with the outcome.<br />
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