#362 ‘Sandymouth Beach 10×12″
by Clare Bowen | Aug 14, 2018 | Beach, Cornwall, Sandymouth Beach, Seascape, Sky, Summer
Last painting in Cornwall. I really enjoyed this part of the world, it helped to have amazing weather, light and skies!This is a wet sand and sky painting. I worked on the tones – the sand was surprisingly dark and the sea even darker. I tired to paint the...
#350 ‘Summer Grazing’ 10×12″ & National Garden Scheme
by Clare Bowen | Jun 30, 2018 | England, Garden, Green, Landscape, Oil Painting, Summer, Teaching, Trees
I did a 1 to 1 plein air day with Elizabeth St John this week. She wanted to paint the view from our garden as we focused on mixing greens. Sheltered by a big pine tree we weren’t too hot and managed to get two paintings done. I suggested she mixed her...
#348 ‘Evening Light, The South Downs’ 11×14″
by Clare Bowen | Jun 26, 2018 | Green, Landscape, South Downs, Summer, The Trundle, Trees, West Sussex
Late summer evenings are wonderful to paint, I tent not to make them very often because I’m too keen to paint first thing and I’m usually tired by the evening, but I geared myself up for this one and went for it! I loved the shadows on the white chalk...
#347 ‘Box Hill Surrey’ 12×16″
by Clare Bowen | Jun 24, 2018 | Countryside, England, Green, Landscape, Oil Painting, Summer, Surrey, Surrey Hills
I was feeling confident from my previous large scale peonies painting so decided to go large on this one as well. I wouldn’t usually on a new subject but was egged on by Sarah Manolescue who also went big.We struggled a little with noise pollution – young...
#345 ‘Chicken House’ 10×10″ & NEAC
by Clare Bowen | Jun 19, 2018 | Chickens, England, Garden, Green, NEAC, Oil Painting, Summer, The Mall Galleries
Back in our friends garden, I didn’t plan to paint this but thought is had a charm. I made a quick ‘Notan’ sketch before – which is a Japanese name for light and dark design:This allowed me to see that most of the painting was mid and dark...
#343 ‘The River Wey, Tilford’ 24x30cm
by Clare Bowen | Jun 12, 2018 | Bridge, England, Landscape, Oil Painting, Reflection, River Wey, Summer
It was a toss up between Waggoners Wells and Tilford Green. I was painting with Sarah Manolescue when we got to Tilford there was bridge works happening and it wasn’t obvious what to paint. We walked around thinking we should maybe try Waggoners, but often the...
#333 ‘Morning Meadow’ 8×10″
by Clare Bowen | May 21, 2018 | Green, Landscape, Summer, Surrey, Trees
We looked out the window and saw gorgeous morning light so dashed down to the end of the garden. My husband hopped over into the field and being a photographer lapped it up. But the camera wasn’t enough for me so I grabbed my plein air gear out of the studio and...