Winter Shadows on the Golf Course by David Whitehead

winter shadows on the golf course
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Love those shadows and another very good painting David

Thank you, Heather. Always appreciated.

Beautifully painted you have handled the green really well.

Thank you, Paul. Not my favourite colour but what can you do?!

Thank you very much, Spencer.

I missed this one, a lovely watercolour like the trees!

Thank you, Valerie, I thought the bare birches made an interesting contrast with the row of sunlit evergreens dividing the fairways.

I missed this one too - it's effective (and I agree with you about the greens - not that there are too many of them in this - I don't think there are - but that they can dominate even though we try to modify them in all sorts of ways. An interesting row of trees - probably planted in order to frustrate the golfers: balls lost in the foliage, bounced back at them from the trunks..... perhaps the course was planned by Mark Twain, who thought that golf just spoiled a good walk... I like the feeling of February sunshine you've caught in this one. As for the recent weather - let us not even talk of it: it's been as depressing, damp, mouldy a February as I can remember in recent years; I'd have preferred snow to this constant murk and wet.

Thank you for those interesting comments, Robert. Glad the rare February sunshine conveyed well.

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17/02/2026
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February Shadows on the Golf Course. Our Tuesday morning outdoor sessions take place in the woods around a golf course, weather permitting. After 6 weeks of seemingly endless wet days the course was closed and a cold sun shone, so we were able to paint in new locations. Too many greens really but an artistically-licensed red flag was introduced by way of contrast !

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and, 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 brush to…

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