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Not much time for sketchbook work but this is a dr

Not much time for sketchbook work but this is a drawing today from memory, aided by a blurry phone photo, of an astonishing May hedge on the edge of the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, in the early evening yesterday. Summer is still catching up here, and the May is glorious. There are still primroses and violets in the shelter of the woods.
#neocolors2
#inkandstick
#candlewax
#mixedmediadrawing
#concertinasketchbook
@seawhiteofbrighton
@carandache
#northyorkshiremoors
#holidayhighlights
#hawthornblossom

My final iris; this is the yellow one, and quite a

My final iris; this is the yellow one, and quite a bit trickier to balance than the others. I still need to tweak the background greens, but I stopped because the tops of my feet were burning in their flipflops, in spite of liberal suncream!
#pleinairpainting
#yellowiris
#beardedirises
#goldenglow
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#stroudartist
#flowerpainting
#summerflowers
#gardensofinstagram
#smallgarden

Our new bronze and gold iris opened up this mornin

Our new bronze and gold iris opened up this morning. A glorious flower, and a heck of a challenge to paint.
I might tweak the greenery a bit in the studio, but that would be all, I think.
Now it's time to sit in the shade and gaze at the garden.
#beardedirises
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#pleinairpainting
#gardensofinstagram
#stroudartist
#rememberedthesuncream
#flowerpaintings

Painting en plein air in the garden today. Our iri

Painting en plein air in the garden today. Our irises have begun unfurling in the sun; stunning, delicate creatures. I will try to catch them this week as more of them open. There are yellow ones in bud and an astonishing new bronze and gold one about to reveal itself.
#beardedirises
#pleinairpainter
#permanentmauve
#oilpainting
#usesunscreen
#wearahat
#stroudartist

A treat to be able to see The Society of Wood Engr

A treat to be able to see The Society of Wood Engravers 2021 exhibition @museuminthepark in Stroud, and have a wander round the beautiful walled garden in warm, hazy sunshine at last! Wonderful work by artists with extraordinary skills.
@societyofwoodengravers
@anne_desmet
@andyengraver
@mollylemonart

#woodblockprint
#linocuts
#woodengraving
#incredibledetail
#inkyfingers

A small but lovely, perfectly formed delivery from

A small but lovely, perfectly formed delivery from @handprinteduk
At last, my first Pfeil tool, super sharp and destined for ALL the fiddly bits I've not been able to cut before. Now I just have to do it justice! 🤔
#linocuts
#pfeiltools
#sharpascanbe
#precisionanddetail
#printmaking
#lotsofpractice

Still life with lemons and garlic, 30 X 30cm, oil

Still life with lemons and garlic, 30 X 30cm, oil on linen. Just off the easel; the first still life I've been half way happy with in weeks. Still wet, but un-scraped!
I had fun with the manganese blue mixes for this one. It's a thin turquoise silk scarf I found at the bottom of my fabric pile. It makes the lemons zing!
#lemons
#garlic
#stilllifepainting
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#turquoisesilk
#citrus
#vintageteatowel
#winsorlemon
#manganeseblue
#greekcolours

Miserden Lake, in progress; collage and mixed medi

Miserden Lake, in progress; collage and mixed media, lots of sticky tissue paper, Neocolors and acrylic paint. About 12 X 14inches. I'm really enjoying working in a totally different way, but behind it all is still a craving for oil paint!
There's still some tweaking to do but it was too sticky.

#collage
#landscapepainting
#neocolor2
#josonjaacrylic
#stroudartist
#mixedmedia
#outofmycomfortzone
#reflectionsinwater
#springlight
#beautifulplaces

Great explore-and-draw this morning with @susewalk

Great explore-and-draw this morning with @susewalk around Stancombe Plantation. This is a smaller clump of trees off to one side. I loved the glimpse of the distant horizon. Managed to preserve most of the drawing from the hailstorm that suddenly arrived, to work on it a bit more in the studio. The colours had run and the sky was green, so had to be tweaked - I'm so literal!
#watersolublecrayons
#neocolors2
#exploreanddraw
#inkandstick
#deluge
#bluehorizon
#stroudartists

Spring has touched the beech trees of Stancombe Pl

Spring has touched the beech trees of Stancombe Plantation! Pink buds and a shimmer of green against a blue sky, with a chorus of skylarks.
A deer jumped over the wall - only feet away - when I was round the other side of the trees, and a red kite flew across.
#springtime
#beechtrees
#newgreen
#neocolor2
#lightandair
#wildlife
#stroudartist
#landscapestudies
#abstractingthelandscape

Portrait study of a man. Oil on canvas 50 X 40cm.

Portrait study of a man. Oil on canvas 50 X 40cm.
I may be mostly a landscape painter, but going through the stack of older work in the spare room, I found this! About 10 years ago I took part in a two day portrait workshop run at the Bristol Drawing School, then based at Paintworks in Bristol. We had a different model each day, and this man was our subject on day 2.
Sadly I don't remember his name, but he was a brilliant model.
I'm trying to work out what to do with my back catalogue, the work that gets 'left behind' in a painting life.... All suggestions welcome!
#portraitstudy
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#paintingfaces
#lifemodel
#bristoldrawingschool
#fastwork
#stroudartist

SOLD: Stancombe Plantation. I think this is done n

SOLD: Stancombe Plantation. I think this is done now. Sprayed, scumbled, spattered. It's taken a week to be dry enough!
#wetpaint
#oilpaint
#abstractingthelandscape
#landscapepaintersofinstagram
#stroudartist
#springgreen
#mattglazemedium
#paletteknives
#longflatbrushes

Stancombe Plantation. Work in progress now very st

Stancombe Plantation. Work in progress now very sticky, so needs to dry off a bit before I go back to it. Translating one of my mixed media sketchbook drawings into oil paint, feeling my way with a new way of working. So far today this has had palette knives, big brushes and fingers thrown at it, been scraped back, spattered and drawn into. It's not where I want it to be - yet.
#experimentsinpaint
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#favouritemedium
#stroudartist
#abstractingthelandscape
#butnotverymuch

Stancombe Plantation is greening up! I love this s

Stancombe Plantation is greening up! I love this stand of trees, and have been drawn back to it at different times of the year. I missed seeing it in the snow, but this flush of green from the spring planting is just delicious. The right hand one is about trying to catch what happens when the sun comes out - sadly not for long enough to warm things up!
Splashy sketchbook work is thanks to @anitareynoldsartist and the inspiration she has brought me through the @newlynartschool #abstractingthelandscape course I signed up for recently.

#mixedmedia #foundauseforoilpastelsatlast
#seawhiteofbrighton
#concertinasketchbook - love these!
#contemporarylandscape
#inkandstick

This beautiful 1/many card from Mary Thorp @rawmix

This beautiful 1/many card from Mary Thorp @rawmixture was waiting when I got home from work last night. So lovely to have real creative treats in the post, when there's hardly an envelope without a window in it these days. My
#oneofmanypostcard collection is growing, and every one is a pearl.
@johnapedder came up with a wonderful, simple idea, and wow, has it spread round the world - but in the best possible way.
The charity I am supporting is Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen

#artthroughyourletterbox
#payitforward
#generosityofspirit
#artforgood
#linoprints
#woodblockprints
#originalartwork
#oneofmanypostcard
#globalartnetwork
#rollonthenextone

Home from work to lovely post from @vickijordanart

Home from work to lovely post from @vickijordanart and @johnapedder a #oneofmanypostcard from each of them, and a delight. The charity I have supported this time is Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen a charity supporting lone women refugees and their children.
#printmaking
#oneofmanypostcard
#artthroughyourletterbox
#payitforward
#sharethelove
#countyourblessings

Blackthorn blossom yesterday afternoon, complete w

Blackthorn blossom yesterday afternoon, complete with ladybird.
Happy Easter Monday, everyone!
#blackthorn
#sloegin
#Springissprung
#ladybirds
#bankholidaymonday
#outinthesunshine

I'm still waiting to hear from the following lovel

I'm still waiting to hear from the following lovely people who have been drawn out of the hat to have one of the #oneofmanypostcard prints. Please send me a DM with your name and your full postal address. I will post them out after Easter. The first batch (quick responders) are going today!

@ursula_potts
@joan.hanlen
@sophie.peanut
@merrynwatson
@lyndakitch
@superschiller
@l.u.c.y.l.u
@mckinleykerrie
@threepronged

Hope to hear from you soon!
#oneofmanypostcard

Hooray! The first #oneofmanypostcard prints has ar

Hooray! The first #oneofmanypostcard prints has arrived safe and sound. Thank you @artfarm123 for my lovely lobsters!
Thank you too to @johnapedder whose brilliant idea the 1/many initiative was.
#printmaking
#everybodywins
#payitforward
#artthroughyourletterbox

Update: all my 1/many prints have been posted toda

Update: all my 1/many prints have been posted today, with the exception of the one for @sophie.peanut who I'm still waiting to hear from. There's a print here for you Sophie, if you want to get in touch.😊
Thank you all, and I hope they arrive safely. Do let me know.

Today's the day! An amazing 34 of you went into the furry hat to be drawn for my #oneofmanypostcard
Here are the lucky 15 results!
@spalmleis
@ursula_potts
@joan.hanlen
@sheenaghaiken
@@sophie.peanut
@emmanuellefletcher
@merrynwatson
@wendybeez60
@kimjarvisartist
@lyndakitch
@superschiller
@l.u.c.y.l.u
@mckinleykerrie
@1treava
@threepronged

Congratulations! Please DM me with your full postal addresses -there are at least one from the USA and two from Europe! I will get these posted out to you as soon as I have the information. I love the internationality of all this - it's like having penfriends - remember those?
It would be lovely to hear where your donations are going;
@johnapedder had a simple but brilliant idea. Everybody benefits!

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