Springtime by Christopher Sayers

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If this is your third oil, Monsieur should be proud of you and of his teaching. But I bet he manages to hide the former well! We do that; wouldn't do for pupils to enjoy a rush of blood to the head..... I don't have any suggestions on how you might improve it because I wouldn't want you to take them up and spoil it.... maybe a few highlights in the far trees, say at the left where the painting tails off a bit. But if you do, don't tell Monsieur I said so - I'm not good at dealing with Gallic scorn....

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Fri 11 Jan 14:29:27

Actually - further reflection: I'm not sure I'd follow that advice at all; no, best leave it to your tutor who can see the work in the flesh and give you much more appropriate advice.

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Fri 11 Jan 14:31:36

Many thanks Robert, No Gallic scorn as I no longer live in France, am now in Gozo, second isle of the Maltese archipelago. The first two oils are on my gallery,pages. I must say that I have seemed to take to oils a little like a duck to water, love the way one can manipulate the medium. Kind regards Chris

Posted by Christopher Sayers on Fri 11 Jan 14:47:37

Full of colour and so very nice. A lovely composition :)

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Fri 11 Jan 19:52:47

Thank you Sarah for your comment, much appreciated.

Posted by Christopher Sayers on Sat 12 Jan 07:37:32

A beautiful, sunny painting Christopher! Perspective works very well and the colours are gorgeous. Well done!

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Sun 13 Jan 16:08:11

Thank you Satu, for your very nice and welcome comment, I had great pleasure in constructing the painting, hoping my teacher will be happy this coming tuesday.

Posted by Christopher Sayers on Sun 13 Jan 18:04:51

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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Here is my third oil, this is a round-about I found one day in France, I was so taken with the profusion of flowers growing so wildly that I simply had to return home for my missing camera. I had always thought to paint the scene but had doubts about how to go about it. This week my teacher asked, " what do you want to do". no idea I replied. He then asked if I had any pictures in my box, yes I have a few. so he chose this one and said its about time you tried something different, here it is, I really felt good building the base washes blocking in the basic shapes and then starting with the sky, moved down the picture. I am not sure what next to do, is there any advice out there please before I take it back to Monsieur next Tuesday. I have tried to obtain an effect of perspective, both with the flowers and the sky, hope it works.