by Clare Bowen | Aug 1, 2017 | Green, Landscape, Panoramic, Sky, West Sussex
Beautiful morning today, with a warm light and fluffy clouds. I planned what I wanted to paint before I got there, as this is the third painting of this view recently. I felt I hadn’t really got to grips with this swoop of this hill but I’m pleased...
by Clare Bowen | Jul 28, 2017 | Clouds, Seascape, Sky, Wapping Group
This was the last painting I did on the day with the Wapping Group. I was very tired but couldn’t resist the sky. It was ever changing and the light and cloud formation, yummy! I knew I had paint still mixed on my palette from the previous paintings so I...
by Clare Bowen | Jul 3, 2017 | Drawing, France, Port en Bessin, Seascape, Sketch, Sky, Sunset
This was the fourth painting of the day, so I was warmed up and flowing! Although when I did it at 10pm it was dusk and could hardly see what I was painting 🙂 There isn’t much tonal contrast just colour contrast. I enjoyed getting the paint down quickly.I...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 11, 2017 | Beach, Seascape, Sky
Very testing conditions! It was last week when the wind and rain was battering the country I went to the coast thinking it would be dramatic down there. It was 🙂 I tucked up against a groin but it really made no difference. The wind was so strong I could hardly...
by Clare Bowen | Apr 26, 2017 | Beach, Drawing, Pen & Ink, Rocks, Rose, Sky, Sunrise
Arrived back home yesterday from South Africa, a wonderful trip visiting my sister.Pen & Ink, Table Mountain. We saw the sunrise over Table Mountain twice – It was so good we had to go back and see it again! Beautiful colours and I was itching to paint...
by Clare Bowen | Nov 8, 2016 | Beach, Landscape, Palette, Seascape, Sky
I had a really great day painting with Artist Michael Richardson over in Kent. It was bitterly cold with a north wind blasting us. But we managed two paintings this was the second. The first is half done because we were chased off the mud flat as the tide flew in!This...
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...
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 | 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 | Aug 17, 2016 | Cliff, Iceland, Pochade, Rocks, Seascape, Sky, View, Vik
I completed this second painting in the afternoon. The light changed half way through with the sun coming out which enriched the colours and contrast. I walked down the beach it was hard going in the soft back sand and my gear. I liked the stacks smaller and at...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 2, 2016 | 10x8", Boats, Hampshire, Landscape, Seascape, Sky, Turquoise, View, Water
I was so lucky with the weather and light. The colours were gorgeous, and I loved the contrasted sandy spit with the deep turquoise blue sea behind. I used fast thinly painted strokes to cover the board quickly, then go in with thicker paint over the...
by Clare Bowen | Apr 26, 2016 | Pastels, Sky, View
Gorgeous sky again had to draw it. I haven’t really used pastels much before, so I experimenting with what they can do. I need to invest in some more colours and surfaces. I had a look online and got rather overwhelmed with the 400 colours I could choose...
by Clare Bowen | Apr 21, 2016 | Charcoal, Sketch, Sky, Surrey, View
Having taught the oil painting course this morning I didn’t have enough ‘quality’ energy to do a painting this afternoon but wanted to get out as it was a lovely day. This view is just down the road from us (in Surrey.) I loved the sky and...
by Clare Bowen | Apr 17, 2016 | 6x8", Sky, Surrey, View
My painting trip last night was a learning curve… Even though I have pared down my equipment to the essentials it all still weights a tonne! I walked about 20 minutes from the car park to this view, but I stopped after 10 as I thought I’d found a...
by Clare Bowen | Apr 14, 2016 | Landscape, Sketch, Sky, View
We have been drawing our hands in my painting class this week, so I was inspired to do some more drawing. The sky has been glorious the past few days so its great to do a sketch of it, I did it from my studio window and made up the land to go with it.It’s...
