Could you tell the difference between a watercolour and an oil painting?
The Art of Escapism – Turner would be proud.
I’m getting the hang of this photo creator software, and have tweaked my own editing templates to achieve a more refined, photographic, though painterly effect on these atmospheric vistas. My latest efforts, examples of which I’m presenting here would indeed be worthy of Turner’s sensibilities, I’d like to think at least. It might be as […]
Oil on Canvas – Lighthouse at Seven Sisters National Park
I’d prepared the layout sketch for this painting back in September, but since then the canvas has been sitting on my easel awaiting my studied presence. Two days before Christmas I decided to just get on with it. Once again, using Mr. Turner as my inspiration I imagined how he might instruct me to proceed […]
More Watercolours ‘n’ Stuff
I’ve been practising more with the watercolours and wanted to try and channel the grand master watercolourist himself, Mr. J.M.W. Turner. What I came up with was something quite inspired and equally quite spontaneous, although I spent a couple of days working to build up various layers. Is it like a Turner? I doubt it, […]
Lighthouse – Digital Painting
Once again I am up with the dawn – pretty much every day this past week. I haven’t really been right since me and Bill returned from across the pond. I do suffer quite a bit from jet-lag. The adjustment to the usual five hour time difference between the USA and the UK is significant […]
View From San Giorgio
I’ve spent the best part of the morning today perusing the Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Art’s collection of etchings by James McNeill Whistler, especially of London, and Venice in the latter part of the 1800s. Apart from having fallen in love with his sketches, and being inspired to begin sketching again, I thought I would […]
Diary of a Person Being Human 