by Clare Bowen | Oct 22, 2016 | Boats, Cliff, Harbour, Seascape, Sky, Staithes, Sunrise
Haven’t posted in a few days as I was prepping for an eight day painting trip we are now on. My husband and I are away in North Yorkshire Staithes, a small fishing village I previously visited in the summer. It’s a really inspiring place and everywhere you...
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 12, 2016 | Beach, Cliff, Landscape, Panoramic, Seascape
Charmouth is just a couple of miles from Lyme Regis, the cliff in the middle distance is called Golden Cap and is the highest point on the South Coast, it’s completely flat on the top.I watched an inspiring plein air painting DVD by Richard Pikesley and he was...
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 | Sep 24, 2016 | Beach, Boats, Oil Sketch, Sea, Seascape, Sky
This weekend I was planning on going to ‘Brush with the Broads’ its a plein air painting festival on the Norfolk Broads. I had to cancel as my dog is very poorly again with an eye ulcer and has gone blind ( I really hope it’s temporary) with administering...
by Clare Bowen | Sep 14, 2016 | Boats, Hampshire, Seascape, Water
I had planned the night before that I wanted to be in Bosham for sunrise I left at 5am but arrived and it was still dark, I held off setting up as I couldn’t see the view! I put my easel right next to the water as it was the best view. I thought the tide...
by Clare Bowen | Sep 6, 2016 | Boats, Fruit, Seascape, Still Life, Studio
As I said in the previous blog I entered some paintings into the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries London. I have managed to get the above 2 through the first round, sooooo pleased and feel like I’m on the right track with my work.All things...
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 | Aug 21, 2016 | Cliff, Iceland, Rocks, Sea, Seascape, Square, Sunrise, Turquoise, Vik
I was back in front of the church looking down on the rocks at 5am for sunrise, which happened a lot faster than sunset the night before. I didn’t have time to paint the rocks in first. Instead I quickly mapped in the shapes and got to work on the sky. The...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 20, 2016 | Cliff, Iceland, Rocks, Sea, Seascape, Turquoise, Vik
I stood in front of the church at 8pm, it was my last painting of the day. Being higher up it allowed me to see more of the sea which reflected the evening colours.I put the rocks in first which gave me some structure to work around. – Dark and silhouetted. It...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 20, 2016 | Cliff, Iceland, Palette, Sea, Seascape, Vik
Thursday I completed 3 oil paintings in one day! That’s my record so far:-) I will post them all today….I decided to make the very long trek on the rock stacks beach to the other end to get a different view, see pic below. It...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 18, 2016 | Iceland, Oil Sketch, Panoramic, Sea, Seascape, Sunset, Vik
We drove around for a while trying to find a new view of the area. We went up the coast quite a few miles and found this deserted beach to paint on. It was nearly 7pm and I had a 20 minute weather window of sky and light, then the grey clouds came over....
by Clare Bowen | Aug 18, 2016 | Iceland, Landscape, Rocks, Sea, Seascape, View, Vik
I did two more paintings yesterday from the Vik village side, where you see more of the rocks I thought they looked a bit like teeth! I tried a more textured surface board and after a smooth board it felt strange and I didn’t have enough...
