The Pond in the Wild Garden

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Absolutely love this, Chrissie! Super top drawer stuff!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Mon 29 Apr 15:08:16

Interesting story about the difficulties of painting plein air, it's always a challenge. Anyway, you managed some sketches without getting your feet wet, this is a cracking painting from them Chrissie.

Posted by Alan Bickley on Mon 29 Apr 15:17:49

Lovely painting sketch or not- well done

Posted by Willie Drea on Mon 29 Apr 15:18:04

Beautiful colours. Wonderful sense of freedom in the brushstrokes too.

Posted by LOUISA SIMPSON on Mon 29 Apr 17:12:31

Thank you so much Thalia ,Alan, Willie and Louisa for your enthusiastic comments - handling the colours proved to be a bit of a challenge !!

Posted by Chrissie Havers on Mon 29 Apr 19:13:54

The colours are great Chrissie and your interpretation of the long grasses. There are one or two wet spots like this in Galloway, I have the same trouble myself.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Mon 29 Apr 19:42:00

Wonderful colours and brush strokes, Chrissie, I like much this one.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Mon 29 Apr 21:00:28

Thank you Fiona and Cesare -so pleased you enjoyed the colours in the painting.

Posted by Chrissie Havers on Tue 30 Apr 08:59:10

Love the colours, Chrissie.

Posted by Shirley May on Tue 30 Apr 11:00:25

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29/04/2019

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Acrylic on paper 17x15ins This pond is at the very end of a boggy meadow which I always think of as a Wild Garden. It is in the Galloway area of Scotland and is a place I have visited many times . Mostly I make sketchbook studies of the Wild Garden because its difficult to set up an easel as the ground is very soggy. I perch on a bit of tough grass here and there and peer over the tall stems of the bog grasses to draw. I have tried to use paints here but if anything drops it is immediately lost amongst all the vegetation. I did manage to do several sketchbook paintings from the small dilapidated hide however, and this painting comes from that.

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