by Clare Bowen | Oct 22, 2017 | Blue, San Giorgio Venice, Seascape, Sunrise, Venice
This was the second painting I did of this sunrise and the final ‘en plein air’ painting in Venice.I mapped out the building shape and high horizon line before the sun came up. The portrait format helps to showcase the lovely light on the water. I...
by Clare Bowen | Sep 27, 2017 | Blue, Boats, Langstone, Seascape, Sky, Sunrise
I decide not to settle for a mediocre composition. I went to a place I had liked previously painted and the tide was so far out there was a trickle of water and mainly mud! It didnt inspire me – and it needs too!So I drove across Langstone Bridge onto Hayling...
by Clare Bowen | Sep 24, 2017 | Blue, Boats, Bosham, Buildings, Sea, Seascape, West Sussex, Yachts
I was itching to get out yesterday and was a lovely afternoon, I went to Chidham (West Sussex) and walked to the coast with a view across the water to Bosham. There was some gorgeous fluffy clouds when I arrived, I whipped out a board and drew with a brush the...
by Clare Bowen | Sep 8, 2017 | Blue, Boats, Bosham, West Sussex, Yachts
Last week I went to Bosham early morning and as I finished ‘Bosham Harbour’ #223 I turned 90 degrees and saw this scene, so I whipped out another board and got the composition down (before the boats moved) but ran out of steam to paint on site so I painted...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 18, 2017 | Blue, Sea, Seascape, Sky, Spain
The first painting in Spain, it took me a few attempts to decide on the composition. As I was drawn to the light on the sea and the sky. But I got sucked in to a traditional a view putting the buildings in, I wiped it down and cut the building off. When...
by Clare Bowen | Jul 29, 2017 | Blue, Boats, Buoys, Sea, Seascape, Wapping Group
This was the first painting I started on the Wapping Group Wednesday (an esteemed group of London painters!)I did a drawing in my sketch book to practise making the shapes as it was a tricky angle. I’d mixed all my colours and about to start painting when the...
by Clare Bowen | Jul 8, 2017 | Beach, Blue
Yesterday we were out in West Witterings in Hampshire. It was sunny and the sea breeze was blowing. I burnt the backs of my knees (missed the sun cream here!) It really felt like summer and it was teaming with people.I started one composition and it wasn’t...
by Clare Bowen | May 20, 2017 | Blue, Boats, Emsworth, Seascape
I got up at 4.30am for this painting! Rather early but needed to get down to the coast and paint and get back again before my husband went to work at 8.30am – we have our shared dog staying, he’s blind and can’t be left alone.It was beautiful at this...
by Clare Bowen | May 16, 2017 | Blue, Boats, Emsworth, Hampshire, Harbour, Seascape
Back home I wanted to explore what I had learnt with Richard Pikelsey as soon as possible. So I set off early to paint in Emsworth harbour. With a very low tide I was able to stand out on the mud flats and use a little boat as my table 🙂 see belowI liked the...
by Clare Bowen | Oct 15, 2016 | Blue, Boats, Clare painting, Palette, Pochade, Seascape
This was the final painting I did in Lyme. Absolutely loved painting the fishing boat, and emphasised it in the composition and the detail which I included. I spent 3 hours on site painting and was exhausted afterwards, a really complex subject but the sort of thing I...
by Clare Bowen | Oct 11, 2016 | Beach, Blue, Landscape, Seascape, Sunrise, Turquoise
This weekend Husband and I had a whistle stop trip to Lyme Regis on the Dorset Coast. We only spent 26 hours there but enough to explore and do 3 paintings :-)This was actually the second painting, I want to revisit the first tomorrow and then post it.Gorgeous, calm...
by Clare Bowen | Sep 25, 2016 | Blue, Boats, Hampshire, Sea, Seascape, Water
This is the same subject as yesterday but I experimented with different combinations – a warmer blue, Ultramarine base. Paint thickness, putting it on in thick strokes, no medium to thin it. Letting some of the dark tone underapitnign show. This was the...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 27, 2016 | Blue, Boats, Emsworth, Landscape, Seascape
I wanted to get back into painting after our trip as soon as I could, as it would be easy to not get back into the swing of it. I was wondering along looking for subject matter and this boat was next to Slipper Mill Pond in Emsworth. I like the shape of the boat...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 22, 2016 | Blue, Clare painting, Glacier, Iceberg, Iceland, Jokulsarlon, Seascape, Turquoise
Seeing all the icebergs and glaciers have a real wow factor with gorgeous blues and infinite shapes of bergs. Knowing I wanted to paint I felt a bit in awe of the place, where to start, how to paint it all? So I didn’t paint the day we arrived, I needed to...
by Clare Bowen | Jul 19, 2016 | Blue, Boats, Bridge, Buildings, Square, View, Water
Some paintings flow and are easy others don’t, this was a stop start struggle and pain! I am still unsure about it, but thought I’d share it anyway. You can tell the bits I enjoyed which were the boats. I wondered around for a while trying to find a...
