The New Footbridge by David Whitehead

This is lovely David

Congratulations on your release, David! So is this Poynton somewhere?

Thank you both. Yes, Roger, it's on one of the footpaths between Prince's Wood and the canal, where mud and erosion had made the path almost impassable. And it's only a limited release from lockdown, I'm not venturing back into shops etc. until the number of new Covid cases daily has dropped considerably for a good while. The 3 of us walk 2m apart until we find our painting spots, then we paint more like 200m apart. And, although the numbers of walkers passing by are small, the benefit of social distancing keeps them away and stops them making helpful comments!

Excellent painting, so go to be able to get out. You done look to be much out of practice to me.

Eye catcher and a good strong watercolour - like it. We are fortunate enough to be back on level 1 - no new cases for over 20 days - but am still more likely to use a photo in this day & age of digital - obtain more potential subject matter in the same amount of time. Stay safe

Thank you Paul & Mike for those encouraging comments. I do agree with your comments, Mike, about best use of available time. I only paint outdoors locally to home, or in Suffolk when I visit an artist friend there. Otherwise, on my travels, I quite agree that the 1 - 2 hours spent painting a watercolour outdoors could equally well be spent gathering a good number of different subjects through sketches and photos.

I like this David, has a nice feel of sunlight.

Thanks Stephen, I always tell myself when I start that I'm not painting the view, I'm painting the way the light falls on the different parts of the view.