When the Sun Breaks Through

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I agree and your painting captures it beautifully.

Posted by Dawn Halliwell on Mon 14 Oct 15:47:33

Lovely work David, super sky.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Mon 14 Oct 19:47:34

Thank you both for those appreciative comments. I love painting skies like this. Wet the paper, splash on cobalt top left, then ultramarine and light red top right and hold the board at 45 degrees. Painting time less than 2 minutes, letting it run time 1 minute, and more than a third of your picture finished!

Posted by David Whitehead on Tue 15 Oct 20:24:39

I love this sort of painting and like the lovely free sky.

Posted by June Covey on Sun 17 Nov 15:06:46

Thanks, June, so glad you like it. It's all about the light, isn't it? These skies are quick and easy, if you just let go as I described in my previous reply.

Posted by David Whitehead on Tue 19 Nov 09:56:15

Hang on Studio Wall

14/10/2019

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The sort of view to make your heart sing, when the sun breaks through and brings the heather moor, and its farms, to life.

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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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