First Snow

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Wonderful.

Posted by Ruth Dolan on Sun 19 Sep 10:22:58

Lost for words!

Posted by Avril Soldani on Sun 19 Sep 10:42:19

an attractive image, should be interested to know how you accomplished it .... cling-film? Scratching-out? Or (amongst many other possibilities!) have you scratched into the paint with the wrong end of the brush, or a colour shaper? Maybe I ask for too much information, but I'm fascinated by your technique!

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sun 19 Sep 22:04:14

A beautiful piece!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Mon 20 Sep 03:35:01

Robert. I think I just built up in layers, using glazes as well as impasto. The veils of rain coming over Haystacks would have been somewhat laboriously ' drawn' in with a rigger. The wrong end of the brush is a very useful tool, and I may well have used this.

Posted by Jo Morton on Mon 20 Sep 07:56:20

Come to think of it, I probably used a very long, cranked palette knife edge-on some of the time, or even the edge of a long piece of card!

Posted by Jo Morton on Mon 20 Sep 12:53:10

This painting has a magic of it's own. Stunning use of colour and shape.

Posted by Thea Cable on Tue 21 Sep 11:42:29

I usually only browse the watercolour section on POL, but now I've looked at your great work. Whilst it's all unmistakably yours, the main stylistic common denominator I detect is protean originality and enviable unwillingness to conform. Since you also have the technique to pursue your vision the results are very arresting and expressive. Superb. Thanks for your comments on my mountains. Much appreciated.

Posted by Kim Sommerschield on Mon 10 Jan 14:17:42

Thank you very much, Kim, for your interesting and helpful comments. I have sometimes wondered if I stick my neck out too far! You may be interested in reading my bit in the 'interviews' section?

Posted by Jo Morton on Mon 10 Jan 21:14:33

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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I had a big slice of luck with this subject. One of the perils of painting somewhere like the Lake District is the weather. Having made careful preliminary drawings - essential in my view - I proceeded to book self-catering accommodation close to my subject - I don't drive , so this sort of convenience is mandatory - in the last week of October, hoping to catch the last of the autumn weather. To my astonishment, I woke up the first morning to snow! Brushes and equipment flying, I quickly transferred my skyline drawing onto a clean sheet of paper, and dashed out to perch on the appropriate rock. Half an hour's meticulous recording of the exact snowline that morning, and lo and behold, the weather closed in, the clouds descended, and I didn't see a thing for the rest of the week! I had to work 'blind' , only having memory and my drawings to go on! Perhaps this accounts for my strange colours? Nowadays I have a digital camera and take hundreds of photographs when particular cloud patterns light my imagination!

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