The Doges Palace, Venice after Jake Winkle

Comments

The pigeons were the result of my messy hands.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Fri 11 Nov 09:42:54

Looks good Derek, like the way you have painted this.

Posted by David Johns on Fri 11 Nov 09:48:58

Thanks David, it was quite arduous for me.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Fri 11 Nov 09:59:09

No failure this - great result Derek.

Posted by Michael Edwards on Fri 11 Nov 10:35:58

Both brilliant and beautiful Derek love it

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Fri 11 Nov 11:15:04

Nice painting Derek and well painted

Posted by dennis roberts on Fri 11 Nov 14:46:25

Thanks Michael, dennis and dennis. It would have been great to be there and capture it in real life.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Fri 11 Nov 14:53:21

It's great Derek, you have done a good job with this.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Fri 11 Nov 16:05:07

Definitely not a failure! Very hard subject! You did well!

Posted by Linda Wilson on Fri 11 Nov 17:16:11

Derek it's terrific...especially the pigeons!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 11 Nov 18:31:02

It's fantastic. I admire your grit and determination.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Fri 11 Nov 19:06:28

This is great Derek I like the nice relaxed style much better than the formal style and it reminds me so much of when I was there during the Carnival & I had my photo taken by a professional photographer wearing my costume !!

Posted by Donna Crane on Fri 11 Nov 19:43:48

Thank you Margaret, Linda, Fiona, Gudrun and Donna. Relaxed?? You should have seen the - no... Were you in mardi gras gear Donna?

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sat 12 Nov 08:57:44

It's a beauty Derek , I like Jakes direct style he also works his darks up first if memory serves me right . This painting sparkles excellent work

Posted by Dermot Brennan on Sun 13 Nov 10:53:43

Thanks Dermot and yes you're right about the darks first

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sun 13 Nov 16:23:39

Hang on Studio Wall

11/11/2016

0 likes

431 views

33 x 25cm on acrylic paper. Another in his article in the Artist magazine. Far more complicated than usual and I wanted to push myself and failed. It was intended to be in my style but I soon realised that is too crude to get the wet in wet subleties that the master does, so then I reverted to using a well beaten up size 0 System 3 brush after doing the three main darks with the cards. As expected my brush work suffers from lack of dexterity, shaky hands but it was helped by the splayed state of the brush which couldn't produce a clean line if it tried. Blame the tools Derek.

About the Artist

Derek Snowdon

Eleventyeight as my hashing pals called my new age recently, it's supposed to sound better. Trying to paint every day in acrylics using only expired credit/debit cards, and partially succeeding as they're only for me and not show these days.

View full profile

More by Derek Snowdon