Old town gate by Kim Sommerschield

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Good to see your work here again and its evolution. Lovely loose style with plenty of water and splattering ...... it's full of life and atmosphere; super work!

Posted by Avril Soldani on Thu 01 Dec 10:31:11

Glad to see you back, Kim. This is again a beautiful painting, full of sunshine. Love the way you painted it in a vignette form. I agree with Avril about the splattering. Well done!

Posted by Mia Ketels on Thu 01 Dec 13:31:08

Great to see your wonderful, bright watercolours again Kim.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Thu 01 Dec 22:21:04

Great little scene, in a lovely style

Posted by Rick brind on Fri 02 Dec 07:21:54

Congratulations on being elected to the Italian Watercolour Society. You really deserve it.

Posted by Avril Soldani on Fri 02 Dec 10:17:44

Lovely vignette - loosely and beautifully painted.

Posted by Thea Cable on Fri 02 Dec 16:48:22

Good stufff Kim, I always get drawn in by these beuttiful paintings with their free and easy, almost nervous quick strokes. best Mick

Posted by Mick Saunders on Fri 02 Dec 18:30:23

Lovely loose painting, striking sunny colours. Good to see your work again Kim.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 02 Dec 19:15:40

Welcome back! This painting is a bit like a time machine: bringing back a lost world of living, and travel... how the car has transformed the landscape....

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Fri 02 Dec 22:27:25

You are all very kind - many thanks. Referring to Robert's comment, indeed it is quirky to sit on a wobbly stool in one century and hear the stable, constant motorised moan of another from not too far off.. Nothing wider than a Fiat 500 would squeeze through this aperture, but once it was sufficient in width to accommodate a good chunk of the traffic in the central Alps... Is that progress?

Posted by Kim Sommerschield on Sat 03 Dec 14:18:52

Probably is progress, Kim - but you don't have to like it!

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Sat 03 Dec 20:45:27

I just love this sort of loose watercolour. I always come home from holidays with watercolours like this that remind me of somewhere I've visited

Posted by Paul Farnes on Sun 04 Dec 17:21:41

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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It's been a while since I last visited - very busy this autumn. I'm sorry to have have missed some great paintings on the site (which I find much improved in both speed of browsing and layout). Here's a little memento from September and a hot couple of hours spent painting the old town gate in Chiavenna. Fortunately the new road has by-passed this area, leaving it in a curious time-warp. W&N on Fabriano rough extra-white