#479 ‘Bosham Creek & Artist’s Life En Plein Air
by Clare Bowen | Aug 8, 2019 | Bosham
The trial and tribulations of plein air…I stopped 5 times to find a suitable place and subject to paint, I but came home with no painting! (I actually went back the next day and did the above painting.) To give you an idea of what sometimes happens when I am...
#477 ‘Boats at Dell Quay’
by Clare Bowen | Jul 31, 2019 | Boats
I taught 4 very friendly plein air painters last week. Typical that it was the hottest day of the year almost ever in our part of the world – over 38 degrees and humid. Tough conditions to paint and for me to teach. The morning session I helped them all get...
#476 The North Downs
by Clare Bowen | Jul 30, 2019 | Landscape
I taught a 1:1 plein air teaching day with Chris, this was the view near his house. We enhanced what was there – I liked the wheat field so made bigger and the feature. Also when the sun came out I put the foreground shadow in. I walked a little left to see the...
#475 Sunflowers
by Clare Bowen | Jul 29, 2019 | Flowers
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. Chunking together petal shapes not painting individuals. Cadmium Yellow Deep a useful colour for this...