Low Hall Garth, Langdale

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Lovely work David.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Thu 24 Aug 10:04:36

David this is super. It makes me want to travel that road and see what's beyond! Looking at your other pictures and drawings you have a great skill in handling perspective. Lovely!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 24 Aug 10:42:28

Very good, and have walked by there a few times.

Posted by Richard Cooper on Thu 24 Aug 12:47:55

Great painting David.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Thu 24 Aug 15:06:47

Lovely painting David, you have managed to obtain some beautiful greens

Posted by David Johns on Thu 24 Aug 19:31:09

Thank you all, my purpose in painting is to capture how it felt to be there, and that's worked for at least two of you. It's a track best travelled on foot or in a Land Rover, Tessa, and it leads to Wrynose Pass, not for the faint-hearted. The walk around Little Langdale Tarn is easy though with wonderful views. I never used to use a tube green until I tried W&N Green Gold. It's a natural sunny green and is the base for grass, trees, walls and buildings, in mixes with Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna and Winsor Yellow.

Posted by David Whitehead on Fri 25 Aug 09:23:36

Hang on Studio Wall

24/08/2017

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We visited the Lakes on a brief day visit last week and I was struck, as always, by the magnificent lighting on the fells. Soon after returning home, I chose one of my hundreds of Lakes photos "to be painted one day" and did this one. The photo was a dull winter scene, taken purely for the composition, but it's painted with the memory of last week's lighting.

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and now, since early retirement, painting it in watercolour. I prefer to paint in the field and have experienced all the difficulties the British weather can present to a painter, from the sun drying the paint on the…

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