Wheal Coates Oil

Wheal Coates Oil
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This painting has a great feeling of light to it. I too like the foreground very much. I like the sky too but perhaps you are right and there isn't enough interest there - on the other hand too much could spoil the serenity of the picture. Hope you will post it again if you do change it.

hi ,i think this painting is just fine as it is, what you have to look at when doing a landscape is not to make the sky to busy if you want the viewer to see the foreground frist then the sky make the foreground busy or sky busy and not the foreground, and it does not matter if a painting seem unfinished, some times a painting is finished, we the artist have to let go or stand back form it and put down the brush, i some times turn my paintings up side down for a few months then go back to them.

Thanks for your comments. I have never come across the concept of turning a painting upside-down, and now the tin-mine is currently inverted (as are a few more of my "are they finished or are they nots?" Cheers for the tip.

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31/03/2015
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Oil version of the watercolour 'sketch'. WS Oil on canvas board 18"x14" ish... I enjoyed the watercolour so much I decided to go for it in oils. At the moment it's unfinished, like quite a few of my paintings. I've got a feeling I may just leave it as is for the time being and come back to it sometime in the future - hence the reason its not yet signed. I'm happy with the composition, and the foreground shadows, but not happy at all with the sky.

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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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