Rolled Fields

love it, the raw sienna is echoed throughout, love the sky line ,love the colour combination ,love the drawing love it all Fiona excellent

Beautiful Fiona you do right a landscape painter has to and the Jacksons paper is really good I think

I love the perspective here and the lovely use of dry brush work. What do you think of Jacksons paper? I use Saunders Waterford because a tutor recommend it and it was so beautiful to use after using cheaper paper Diana

Beautiful sky, love the dry brush work Fiona.

Nicely done Fiona, fully agree about the field colour and if I remember my time on the land depending on the weather and when cut top layers did not always look green in certain lights, love the mid ground colours and the active sky, nice one.

Dry brushwork works well

It's a beautiful landscape Fiona. Love the leading lines

Lovely work with great brushwork.

As usual I am late to the party and I agree with previous comments. I would like to add, I am cooking a curry as well, so perhaps I can be forgiven for being succinct, or have I been succinct??

Love this Fiona, a real feeling of open space and big sky. I think the colour works really well without any green on the fields, and the trees are beautifully done.

It doesn't need any greens Fiona, the colours you've used are perfect. Really love it!

Stunning Fiona.

Hi Fiona. I have not logged on for quite a while because our broadbaband has become so slow its worse than watching oil paint dry. However I persevered tonight and it was worth it to find your Rolled Fields. I have always liked your blue/yellow palette.

Just always amazing Fiona, love this.

Beautiful painting Fiona, lovely use of colours and beautiful dry brush marks. I like the perspective too.

Everything about this painting bleeds quality. Sky, perspective, palette and lovely loose brushwork. Just wonderful.

I do not know what all the fuss is about green. Why not yellow? white thats a real tricky one. Perhaps the problem with green is that there are so many manufactured greens and when directly applied just do not work. I do remember staring out I loved oil paints but what I did was always poor. The problem was my colour mixing. I got interested in pastels because this article I read went on to say how to make them. I also made my own pastel paper, it was far better than what you can buy. Anyway to colour. Well of course you cannot forever mix and mix pastels when you are out there in the field. You might have a good selection, but oh heck not the colour I am looking at and you cannot mix it up, on the spot. So one has to improvise. Whats the nearest thing I've got. "Ah thats something like it, and a bit of this over the top." And that how I would go on. Teaching myself how to use colour and not consciously releasing it. So further up the road I could see that, "Hey if I can do this with pastels I can continue with oils I thought." Strangely enough when I use oils now I know what I am doing when mixing them on the palette. Is that little story any good to anyone. lol. Oh by the way Fiona this is a very good sketch, strong and well defined shapes.

Marvellous Fiona! Just the right amount of brushwork and so effective.

Lovely work Fiona

Stunning Fiona. Reminds me very much of Ted Wesson, but undoubtably yours. I think green would have been pretty garish and would have destroyed the harmony you've achieved here. I'd definitely hang this on my wall.

I like the dry brush work leading into the composition Fiona. The church is well positioned, off centre. It also makes a good panoramic work if you cut off a little of the foreground.

Tranquil, sereine, peaceful, beautiful! Who needs greens when there's raw sienna! Wonderful watercolour Fiona!!

I think everything has been said Fiona. I particularly like the composition and agree that this is a beautiful painting. Greens in this would spoil the palette I think and I know you've said in the past that you stay away from greens. A lesson for us all.

This and the Thames Mud piece are absolutely superb. I have nothing to add to the other, comprehensive comments except to observe how your work has developed and expanded over the period of time we have been exchanging comments. I think these two are my favourites.

This is beautiful, Fiona. So peaceful! I love the palette too!xx

You do great landscapes who cares about the colour!

It's just superb - I'm envious

The dry brush does look very effective Fiona. I was once told off by another artist in an art group because I wasn't mixing my own greens. A lot of artists seem to use Viridian as a base but that is a colour I really can't get on with. However this works really well. Love it.

Oh my goodness....I'm staggered and humbled by your response and terrific comments. I have said this in this past on more than one occasion, that without the feedback and encouragement from you lovely people out there my journey in art wouldn't have been as smooth. I know I say this many times too but I really do appreciate the time and effort you take to comment on my postings. Thank you all very much....X

Hi Diana, I don't mind the rough type of Jackson's paper, I do most of my pen & wash paintings on that....but I use Arches mainly.....only for best though!!lol I used the Jackson's on this one because I didn't think it was going to be that good! You are forgiven Gudrun you had your hands full just with the curry!

John, I think you have proved the point that to practice mixing colour, in what ever medium, isn't time wasted. I don't own any ready mixed greens, except in oil and I have viridian (only because the tutor insisted) but it's a colour I dislike intensley. I do mix greens when need be and I either use raw sienna or raw umber with ultra marine that's about as far as my experimenting goes.lol Thanks

If anyone is interested in the colours used; raw sienna, raw umber, ultra marine, venetian red and possibly a touch of burnt umber...all Old Holland watercolours.

This is just stunning, Fiona - that landscape in the distance is brilliant, and works so well with the open space in the foreground!

LOL Fiona, Viridian I was going to warn about. Its so strong. I think when teaching one should not teach from where you are, but go down to where the beginner is. Anyway just a point of view. Perhaps my view on Viridian should not be any sort of rule either. I believe each one should find there own way with colours. Thats it one has to find ones own palette of colours full stop.

Lovely brushwork and perspective Fiona. The blue marks in the foreground echoing the back ground are very effective.

Viridian makes a lovely deep grey when mixed with a purple. That's more or less the only time I use it Fiona. You were right to stick to the Raw Sienna. The colour of sunshine :) and this is full of light. Lovely.

Thank you so much Seok, Margaret, Sarah (I haven't got any purple Sarah, I'm not very adventurous with my palette...lol) John, as soon as I open my paint box that tube of Viridian has got it in for me....even if I don't actually put any on my palette it ends up everywhere!lol I very rarely use more than four, maybe five colours at the most in any one painting and I only have about nine colours in total that I use in landscapes. The ones I use on a regular basis I know very well, I know what I can do with them and I know what range of other shades I can get from them....throw in a new colour and I panic!!lol That;s watercolours of course. Oils? I'm still floundering with that medium!

This is an excellent watercolour Fiona, the overall composition and colours you have used work very well together, really like the dry brush work around the trees etc and think that the colour you have used for the fields works far better than greens in this instance , really like this one .

Thank you very much Graham.

Splendid work Fiona confidant bold brushwork excellent indeed . Raw sienna is a marvellous colour , I know an artist over here who never mixes greens with a yellow and never uses any of the bright yellows but only a raw sienna with various blues , and she paints lovely watercolours . I used to avoid greens when I started out and used a lot of umber and ochres but gradually got confidant with greens as I learned to mix convincing greens , the great James Fletcher Watson used raw sienna in his watercolours a lot to make very convincing convincing greens . You don't need a green in this gem Fiona it's a beauty

You are very kind Dermot thank you very much. I generally use only raw sienna and raw umber....occasionally Indian yellow but not very often. Thanks again.