Leicestershire Fields

A great example of what watercolour is all about - just letting the colours and water do the work - lovely!

What can one say?? This is absolutely delightful. Angela, above, says it all. More, please, Michael.

Lovely fresh watercolour, super sky. I have a book by Ray Campbell Smith, he paints in a similar way. Stephen

Wonderful! again an easy approach...so effective,.

Another fine watercolour Michael with a great sky once again with some nice tones in the rees as well , a nice piece.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments. Stephen, you are correct - I have been greatly influenced by Ray Campbell Smith when painting scenes such as this - I also use a similiar palette to him with just a few exceptions.

Fabulous sky Michael, the hard edges to he clouds are brilliantly placed. May I ask if you use ultra marine & burnt umber for your darks as in the foreground hedgerow? I hope you can find a few more like this......... I've been doing a few oils just lately but when I see your paintings and others such as Alan Owens etc I want to have another go with watercolours. I get very frustrated with them!!! Great painting by the way...if I haven't already said!!Lol!

There's nothing more to add, except that I like it alot!

Very lively sky - as for your artful titling trick; confess I've done the same... um, twice. Shame mode.... Ray Campbell Smith is a great example to follow; I've always liked the rusty colour he achieves in his trees, and his attraction to pure watercolour.

Thanks again for all your comments. I have been asked about my palette especially the clouds. Clouds: ultramarine with light red and raw sienna used in a variety of mixes and sometimes paynes gray. For the rest of my paintings, in addition to these colours, I also use burnt sienna, paynes gray, cobalt blue, sap and olive green. When painting foliage I use the greens knocked back with varying additions of ultramarine, raw sienna and burnt sienna. I sometimes use other colours for the odd highlight: cad red and cad yellow for example. Hope this is of interest.

Lovely painting. You've captured the mood of the sky very well.

For me this is the best - brilliant sky, trees, composition and atmosphere! By the way, thanks for your comment on my latest posting which I was not really happy about.

beautifully painted .