Blackthorn blossom

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Good one John 🙂

Posted by Stephen Hulse on Tue 18 Apr 16:04:29

Yep , it's beautiful at the moment. Super painting.

Posted by Andrew Roles on Tue 18 Apr 16:37:47

Always takes me by surprise, blackthorn - more blossom than you'd think one tree could produce. Glad to read you're getting your inspiration back, as indeed you've demonstrated with this painting.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Tue 18 Apr 18:07:54

I was walking Sam dog this morning and admiring the lanes....thinking I must do a painting. Now here we are you have done a beautiful one.

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Tue 18 Apr 18:42:33

I really like the delicacy of the John. Super work.

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Tue 18 Apr 20:12:42

Lovely and nice to see you back ... I know what you mean about painter's block!

Posted by Heather Love on Wed 19 Apr 07:32:08

A lovely watercolour.

Posted by valerie harper on Wed 19 Apr 15:36:59

Thank you all for your comments on my annual homage to the blackthorn! John

Posted by John Whitehead on Wed 19 Apr 19:26:32

Like this, John

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Thu 20 Apr 17:43:29

Hang on Studio Wall

18/04/2023

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First picture for a while - I've been suffering painter's block! Now that the blackthorn's flowering I'm back in action though. Every year I do sketchbook paintings and drawings of that splash of white in the hedgerows but this is the first 'proper' painting of it that I've attempted. This is a 6X8" watercolour on Langton CP paper.

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John Whitehead

A Lancastrian who now lives in Buckinghamshire, I'm a professional engineer, former lecturer and self-taught watercolour painter. I've drawn since childhood and in the 1970s began to tentatively add watercolour to pen drawings. This is still my favourite medium but I do make the occasional foray…

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