View across the Trent Valley

Comments

Very clever

Posted by Martin xxShawxx on Wed 20 Sep 07:53:39

The charcoal scribbles really add a nice tough to this Alan. Lovely palette and scene.

Posted by Denise Cat on Wed 20 Sep 09:06:15

Minimalism! Captures the weather perfectly Alan.

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Wed 20 Sep 09:08:55

Thanks guys… sometimes these wet in wet washes work, but it’s a bit hit and miss!

Posted by Alan Bickley on Wed 20 Sep 09:11:26

5 minutes? I can't produce anything in that amount of time.

Posted by Russell Edwards on Wed 20 Sep 09:22:37

Love the spontaneity, simplicity, energy and the limited palette!

Posted by Hilary Forbes on Wed 20 Sep 10:13:52

Superb sketch Alan

Posted by Richard Cox on Wed 20 Sep 11:16:39

Simply superb.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Wed 20 Sep 12:03:38

Saying a lot with a minimum of means - it puts me in mind of one of my favourite H H Brabazon sketches.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Wed 20 Sep 12:13:03

Scribbles and washes, who would have thought they could say so much Alan. Beautiful.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Wed 20 Sep 12:20:54

5 mins of magic ✨️

Posted by Faye Patrick on Wed 20 Sep 14:01:43

Good sketch!

Posted by Emma Price on Wed 20 Sep 15:06:44

Oh just lovely Alan, love the spontaneity of this-

Posted by Rachel Wood on Wed 20 Sep 16:02:50

You make it look so easy Alan, if only...

Posted by Val Kenyon on Wed 20 Sep 16:04:45

Very effective Alan.

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Wed 20 Sep 19:01:14

Captured perfectly Alan.

Posted by Shaun Byatt on Thu 21 Sep 04:48:05

Super sketch. Full of spontaneous energy

Posted by Diana Boanas SWA on Thu 21 Sep 09:16:20

oh that's great!

Posted by Tanja G. on Thu 21 Sep 11:35:57

Rapid, but nothing has been lost ……..it’s got atmosphere, colour and energy.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Thu 21 Sep 15:56:48

Minimalist but yet conveys so much.

Posted by Sandra Kennedy on Thu 21 Sep 21:55:47

Full of feeling Alan.

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Sat 23 Sep 19:28:35

This is how it should be done, no messing or fiddling no overworking which sometimes I am guilty of! Love the spontaneous brush work so delicate but although I like the scribble in the land I am not sure I would have put it in the sky as I think of skies being delicate and the landscape more rough or scribbly but I think I am about to be told I am wrong? Just a personal thought but truly love this kind of work.👍

Posted by William Jones on Thu 28 Sep 13:10:09

Thanks guys, William, you are probably right about the scribble in the sky, but I’m okay with it. It won’t be going anywhere, apart from a portfolio!

Posted by Alan Bickley on Thu 28 Sep 13:58:50

Hang on Studio Wall

20/09/2023

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Autumnal and misty! But great for capturing an early morning atmospheric landscape - a rapid 5 minute (at most) watercolour sketch from my patio, in my Two Rivers sketchbook. Limited palette and some wet in wet technique applied, plus a few charcoal pencil scribbles!

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Alan Bickley

Having studied fine art and graphics at both Stafford and Derby college, my career working as a graphic artist and latterly as editorial artist with Northcliffe Media Ltd, has kept me constantly in touch with all aspects of art and design. Painting mainly in oils, acrylics and watercolour, my…

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