Half-term in Wales

Great to be in the country again. The weather was a bit grey and wet for most of it but surprisingly mild for the time of year. We didn't mind a bit as we were all having such a great time relaxing with the Potts at the barn, going on beach walks, feeding the horses and painting in the woods.

The paintings on the left were all painted consecutively from top to bottom. The first is still the best - just worked first time. Really was guerilla painting! Propping the canvas up with twigs on the mossy forest floor or on a picnic bench in a full force gale!

My axing skills are still intact, even with a blunt axe! I forget what a gentle and varied landscape the Llewn pennisular (Anglesey) is.

More in mist series

Light burst 2

Second in the sub-series completed. Caroline thinks they look quite "seventies folk." I go along with her to an extent though they are so much more than that..

In this painting the light is more broken up and it was even more challenging to paint. Maybe the next I'll just paint with my fingers!

Anyone who comes up with the most appropriate acoustic artist who would accompany this painting, can, get a handslap!

First in lens flare series

At last the first in a new sub-series from the Portuguese collection. These new paintings will explore the delicate shifts in light created by sunlight breaking through morning mist. Relying on photographs for the lens flare, these delicate light studies are achieve through thin glazes. Occasionally light coats are rubbed in with a finger to blur the edges when necessary. A hard painting to work but so far so good!

"Last Haiku" finished

Through the eye of the telescope

The falling eagle is coming on after a good session yesterday. Almost prefer it as a white silhouette. Will need to add more descriptive detail into the forest beneath. Sky looking good.

The most recent watercolour is the least successful. The first is still the best and the shortest in terms of execution!

Cityscape studies

The first in a series of watercolours painted from outside our top floor flat in Deptford. The wind whistles, the birds make a right racket and the paint just moves and swirls..whatever the weather!