Lost in Wharfe by Ian Black

Lost in Wharfe
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I really like this. The colour and the composition. I read in a book sometime ago, that it is inadvisable to draw downhill views as it will look wrong, but this is excellent and describes the terrain beautifully.

Lovely painting Ian, a very tricky angle and you have managed it beautifully.

You have captured the story beautifully.

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14/11/2016
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Oil on Board 8" x 10", Wharfe is a tiny hamlet about a mile east of Austwick, the only settlement in the ridiculously pretty little Crumackdale, one of the lesser known and least visited of the Yorkshire Dales. The couple in the painting were constantly looking at their map to check their route through this metropolis... I managed a snap of them when they resolved their orienteering difficulties down the leaf-strewn paths of the hamlet.

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Ian Black

Ian was born in Leeds in 1972, he is a self-taught artist living in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and is undoubtledly proud of his heritage. Inspired by the characteristics of the Dales, Ian is a prolific sketcher and pochade painter who is attempting to capture the spirit of the local…

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