Barns at Sparrowpit

Barns at Sparrowpit
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Love the graduation of the wash in the far hills David....super watrcolour.

Thanks for all your kind comments, Fiona. The wash for the hills is a good example of the wonderful effects you can get with Daniel Smith's granulating paints, particularly Transparent Red Oxide, very similar to Burnt Sienna. The far hillside is all panted with mixes of this and W&N French Ultramarine.

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13/04/2015
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These barns are easily missed as they stand beside a steep hairpin bend on the busy A625 in Derbyshire.

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and now, since early retirement, painting it in watercolour. I prefer to paint in the field and have experienced all the difficulties the British weather can present to a painter, from the sun drying the paint on the…

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