Wreaths/Wraithes Tower

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Great Fiona. I didn't need to look who did it. Splendid in its confidence.

Posted by Jim Morris on Sat 28 Jul 13:46:53

Love this painting Fiona and love the history that goes with it. 😀

Posted by Linda Drury on Sat 28 Jul 14:15:06

That's a striking confident painting as Jim rightly says, and a great history lesson too!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Sat 28 Jul 14:25:14

That excellent pen work again! Nice one Fiona.

Posted by Louise Naimian on Sat 28 Jul 14:33:51

Thank you very much Jim, Linda, Thalia.......a bit more confident perhaps because I’ve gone back to my dull limited palette...lol. I’m beginning to like colour much more but I can’t seem to make it work for me. There is no information at this site of any kind, I had to resort to google, and someone else’s research for the history lesson on this one. It’s done from a sketch and photo of mine own.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 28 Jul 14:34:02

Thank you Louise! To follow on from your ‘Furnace Friday’, we’re having a ‘Scottish Siberian Saturday’......lol.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 28 Jul 14:42:42

Your work is highly recognisable Fiona and this is a good one! The story behind it is good too!

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Sat 28 Jul 15:47:38

Beautiful ink and wash, Fiona.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Sat 28 Jul 16:20:45

Lovely pen work and colours, Fiona, immediately recognisable as one of yours! (I don't think the palette is dull at all, and it's enhanced by the pen work, especially on that tree.)

Posted by Jenny Harris on Sat 28 Jul 16:23:28

Super work and story Fiona, love that tree on the left!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Sat 28 Jul 16:31:24

Very nice painting Fiona

Posted by dennis roberts on Sat 28 Jul 18:44:57

Very lively painting Fiona, and the story behind the scene is most interesting.

Posted by Sandra Kennedy on Sat 28 Jul 22:28:30

Margaret,Cesare , Jenny, Tessa, Dennis, Sandra......thank you all for your feedback.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sun 29 Jul 10:48:58

A rather pleasing watercolour Fiona. Interesting subject and history lesson with a splendid tree in full leaf.

Posted by Alan Bickley on Sun 29 Jul 12:03:13

Another great pen and wash Fiona.

Posted by Richard Cooper on Sun 29 Jul 13:22:03

Alan and Richard, thank you both very much.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sun 29 Jul 17:12:11

Like the style, Fiona

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Sun 29 Jul 17:47:11

Maureen thanks very much.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sun 29 Jul 21:31:00

I wish we'd had history lessons illustrated by paintings like these when I was at school, I'd have enjoyed them a lot more and maybe even remembered some of what was being taught :) A great pen and wash as usual Fiona.

Posted by Val Kenyon on Tue 31 Jul 16:26:33

I know exactly what you mean Val, if only school lessons could have been spiced up with a bit of gossip of the time......we would have been hooked! Thanks very much!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Wed 01 Aug 11:51:16

Lovely sketch Fiona with great colours. Thsnks for info - have passed that tower and didn't know anything about it.

Posted by Margaret Nisbet on Wed 08 Aug 18:06:22

Hang on Studio Wall

28/07/2018

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12” x 9” watercolour and ink on jacksons rough. A ruined tower by the side of a single track road on the way to Southerness. Built in the 1500’s by James Douglas, a powerful figure of the time, who was instrumental in the political power struggles between Mary and Elizabeth..... Catholic/Protestant regimes. He quelled any further Catholic support for Mary and became one of the four regents to govern the country whilst Mary’s son James Vl was still a child. Like many ambitious characters of the day Douglas got his comeuppance when he was accused of helping to plot the murder of Lord Darnley, who was James Vl father. Douglas introduced a new kind of guillotine to the country and in 1581 was one of its first victims.

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