Scafell from Green How

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Lovely painting Brian. Your use of greens are beautiful.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Mon 13 Jun 17:09:14

lovely painting ...I love this place ,it is a great walk

Posted by anne cooper on Tue 14 Jun 07:06:59

Super work Brian, those strongly painted trees in the middle ground really push the more distant areas back, very nice.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Tue 14 Jun 08:42:50

Lovely day painting Brian, love the colours and the way you have painted the fells in the background.

Posted by David Johns on Tue 14 Jun 08:48:44

Thanks for these comments I have struggeled with greens in the past, now i limit myself to sap green but use it as an additive - I generally mix greens from blue and yellow.: I use two blues ultramarine, cerulean and three greens llemon ochre and cadmium this gives give a big useful range of greens.

Posted by Brian Fish on Tue 14 Jun 09:43:59

A stunning and impressive painting, Brian. Beautiful greens. What size is it?

Posted by Mia Ketels on Wed 15 Jun 08:36:32

Hi Mia, the completed picture is 14 x 10 on Langton rough paper,using watercolour, wax crayon, inks and pastel.

Posted by Brian Fish on Wed 15 Jun 08:48:47

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13/06/2016

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On a family walk from Dalegarth after visiting Stanley Force we stopped for lunch above the trees on the side of Green How, which afforded a splendid view straight across Eskdale to Scafell. I did a compositional sketch and returned in the late afternoon to do a ‘plein air’ painting. I happily got lost in the process and had 85% complete. I have to admit that the foreground was completed indoors; when the best light had gone at about 7-30pm my tolerance of the midges suddenly collapsed and I beat a hasty retreat. The fells in view are from left to right; Kirk Fell, Great Gable (just visible), Scafell looming over Eskdale Fell, then the distant hazy horizon showing Esk Pike, Bow Fell and part of Crinkle Crags. The sun was mostly but at times during the evening broke through adding the contrast I have tried to capture.

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Brian Fish

I am primarily a landscape painter concentrating on the weather using watercolour, inks and acrylic mediums. Painting in the open is something that I find both exciting and inspiring; it is the immediacy of the subject right there in front of you that in some way finds itself into the work, it…

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