Village Outskirts

And now I see the photo's got a bit foggy in the middle, just to help matters along nicely......

I still want to walk along this lane wrong or not ,I always love the foliage you put in your pics , messy and realistic...brave you posting your perceived failures . Mine are in a heap( large) waiting to be painted over.

say what you like Robert .I think this is great,,and it would be hanging on my wall in pride of place .

I don't care if you don't like it , I think it's just lovely, love the grasses, it's just so wild , just like the real countryside.

I agree. this is really great. I've just sold one of the painting a day series I did and I had it earmarked for more work or a complete paint over whichever came first and it was the first picture the lady picked out of the stack??? What we see as good and the rest of the world is sometimes mind boggling.Witter over this is fabulous. love the textures and the colours.

I am a bit dim when it comes to spotting errors Robert, Can't see one here! I like the composition and I like the detail. I spotted the rat though! :o))

I too like the wild feel. I agree with Dawn regarding our own critique. I also found the rat! At least I hope you are wiser than me. I vigilantly prevented my daughter from getting sunburn and proceeded to burn my arms. We were by the seaside; I was brought up by the seaside and boats and yacht so there really was NO excuse for getting burnt at all! Then I found that I had somehow completely messed up my knitting; spent too long on it so my arm hurts. Husband has renamed me Knit-twit.

The actual mistake was painted over, Carole: it was the necessity to do it that caused the problem; although on reflection I'm not that keen on the subject anyway! Diana Hudson, over on Facebook, suggests the white building is too prominent, and I'm contemplating a colour wash over it: make it a pink cottage, for instance.... Wodjer fink?

A pink colour or any other colour cottage would get lost Robert. White works well, I'd definitely leave it alone. It's good as it is!

This I like. It's a great compostion. I feel as though we have just been on a mystery ramble and thinking how do we get out of these fields or woods and suddenly, ahh, there's the road ,let's get a drink somewhere. I would leave the colour of the cottage as it is.

OK - thanks all; one day I'll produce something and say it's brilliant: and you'll all hate it!

Thank you for saying that you believe in posting failures as well as successes. I like doing that for the record but still feel a bit embarrassed about doing it. Though, of course, this is far from a failure as all the comments say and I agree - though I personally do prefer the wildness of your paintings without buildings. I blew this one up to have a good look and found some longjohns on the washing line. You could wash them pink!

Aha - glad somebody found the longjohns..... Yes, I do believe in posting the failures as well as the successes: I think others might learn more from the former than from the latter, and I think it helps me to learn at the same time. Of course - you never know, as one or two (Dawn, for example) have said, what other people might see in a painting that you can't see for yourself because you're disappointed or even annoyed with it.

I like it. I am not sure however what POL meant when they said on the forum that Robert and others had been chosen to sport the new gallery layout. http://www.painters-online.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=3128&posts=1#M32308

Neither am I, Pat - I think we'll have to buy the magazine to find out; and there is more than one Robert Jones, so it could be this is the Cornish version with whom I tremble to compare myself.

Yup! I see the rat and what is wrong with this? Nothing....it is the first painting that I have wanted to comment on today and it is already on Page 4! Tsk!Tsk! Leave the cottage as it is Robert and just enjoy this lovely addition to your gallery :) Love the texture too...More like this I say :)

White house works beautifully as you walk towards it. I wouldn't change the colour Robert! It's a great painting with a rough, wild path at the front that leads you to the village lane and past the cottage. Birds are flying high in the sky and the tranquil sun has thrown it's warm blanket over the land.

This is lovely Robert, a perfect country walk. I like the white house too, pink may get lost a little.

Very beautiful. I love yout style and of course I found your little fellow. On the other hand couldn't find the problem with perspective.....

I concur with everyone else - I like it a lot, Robert! It has a lot of atmosphere and a good sense of space. Just the right place for a laconic ramble.

I too, love this study. I could amble down that country lane too.

It's a beauty Robert....and yes, I know I'm 9 years late in commenting! I have been scrolling through your gallery admiring your work.