Estuary Cottage

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Lovely painting.

Posted by Denise Cat on Fri 02 Jul 06:45:44

Beautiful and enchanting

Posted by Heather Love on Fri 02 Jul 06:55:59

This is excellent and lots to like about it.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Fri 02 Jul 11:50:07

Lovely watercolour John, I’m very fond of your watercolours.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 02 Jul 17:28:17

Great feeling of space and lovely landscape gradations.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Fri 02 Jul 18:34:20

The artistic licence is sometimes necessary, you added that perfectly, John. Love the colours in the sky

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Fri 02 Jul 21:27:11

Thank you all for your welcome comments. Marjorie, I make sure my artistic licence doesn't expire. Like a driving licence, it is so handy to have even without a car! Fiona, thank you again, but I have just started an oil on panel! Sorry!! :)

Posted by John Walker on Sat 03 Jul 12:53:31

Hang on Studio Wall

01/07/2021

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Watercolour. Approx 12 x 15 inches. Not much in this picture. At the time I was experimenting with the effects of including little in the way of detail. All the same a friend liked it, so it went as a present. This is from the early 2000s. I wasn't unhappy with the lack of detail, as I had fun 'slapping' on the washes! It was a few days after completion that I realised I needed some 'lead-in' detail, and that was when I added the 'broken piles' to the left foreground.

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John Walker

I have painted most of my life. Childhood Christmases usually found a box of watercolours in my 'stocking'. I left school in 1954 and within 6 months I had enlisted in the Royal Navy, starting at the infamous HMS Ganges, near Shotley, Suffolk. Artists country yes, but no time for such things while…

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