Mayflower on the Wye (4) by Anthony Skates

Comments

Stunning

Posted by Jo Morton on Tue 26 Mar 05:28:11

Four excellent pieces Anthony. They look very difficult to paint.

Posted by Kal Cavan on Tue 26 Mar 07:52:19

Very good indeed

Posted by Heather Love on Tue 26 Mar 08:00:12

That bu Sh is incredible. Great result Anthony and good look for the exhibition.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Tue 26 Mar 10:45:42

Beautiful!

Posted by Angela Harrison on Tue 26 Mar 11:20:05

Gorgeous!

Posted by Emma Price on Tue 26 Mar 17:27:15

Superb

Posted by Rachel Wood on Tue 26 Mar 19:16:03

The contrast with the background foliage is so good

Posted by Anjana Cawdell on Wed 27 Mar 07:03:12

A beautiful series of paintings, which excite my envy. I know how hard it is to paint Hawthorn, Blackthorn etc; you can very quickly lose all sense of shape, but YOU haven't; so that'll be me..... I would imagine the biggest mistake is to use pure white, but there are bound to be others, and I'll have made most of them.

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Wed 27 Mar 15:45:55

Thanks for the comments everyone. Ive now done about 12 of these little pictures so Im sort of getting to grips with this subject. For me the main issue with Hawthorn is that there is actually quite a lot of green in the tree as the flowers come out after the leaves. I do add a very slight hint of a light ochre into the white of the flower as this takes the edge of the whiteness.

Posted by Anthony Skates on Wed 27 Mar 22:51:17