#136 Sunrise The Beck, Staithes 9.5×12″
by Clare Bowen | Oct 23, 2016 | Boats, Harbour, Harmonious Colours, Seascape, Sky, Staithes, Sunrise
Another windy morning but lucky with the rain and had some great fluffy clouds. I really enjoyed painting the sky, a real test of observation under limited time.I had to strap my pochard to the railings as the wind would blow it over and difficult to do any detail as...
#128 ‘Surrey Hills’ 6×15.5″
by Clare Bowen | Oct 2, 2016 | Harmonious Colours, Landscape, Panoramic, Surrey
Lovely light on the morning hills, really blue and pale. I used a new wood panel by Gerstaeker called Tintoretto, I had prepared it with three layers of acrylic gesso, and it was really nice to work on, the paint glided but didn’t sink into it. No need to...
#35 ‘Comice Pear’ 6×6″
by Clare Bowen | Feb 16, 2016 | Fruit, Green, Harmonious Colours, Square, Still Life
One for my students, we will work on planes (surfaces) of a subject and harmonious colours. It was surprising how yellow the pear was, you think a pear is green so to truly see it I cut out a little hole in a piece of paper and looked at the pear, this isolates...