Farm above Peak Forest Canal, Strines

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Shades of Rowland Hilder here and it is smashing

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sat 13 Jun 10:46:22

A really good study of the type of landscape I also love to paint. It's so easy to put too much detail in the foreground but I would have liked to see a really dark shadow of a tree or whatever at the base to anchor the composition. I do love your rendering of the group of trees on the right of the picture, a good painting.

Posted by Alan Bickley on Sat 13 Jun 15:36:19

Nice work and as Dennis said it has a Rowland holder feel to it , lovely

Posted by dennis roberts on Sat 13 Jun 23:29:59

Thank you all for your kind comments, Rowland Hilder will be turning in his grave! It's all down to a limited palette and Mother Nature's dramatic lighting, really.

Posted by David Whitehead on Tue 16 Jun 19:43:20

Hang on Studio Wall

13/06/2015

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The towpath walk between Marple & New Mills provides several dramatic subjects like this.

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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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