Flood Plain

Great start Robert. Keep them coming!

This caught my eye as I looked through the gallery, You have chosen a great palette which works so well and i do like the way you have incorporated the misty distance with the bold and effective marks in the foreground. First the is year eh - well it was worth waiting for.

yes the colours caught my eye also.really bold foreground with a nice diminishing to the background.,like it.

This is beautiful and I love all the colours

Well, the board has certainly held the paint well, and I will try this Ampersand board soon. Good work and keep at it.

lovely composition Robert, well painted with a an expert artists touch David Harrison

Superb started with a winner Robert

Great start to the year Robert. Lovely textures and the spot of sunlight on the foreground lifts the painting beautifully.

Unmistakeably yours Robert but perhaps with more texture? Is that your little pal I see again?

Texture is achieved by scratching into the paint with a painting knife, which I tended not to do before but have in my last few oils.... Also, there's a bit of knife work in the application of paint: I used to be deterred from mixing brush and knife work by the advice of R O Dunlop, who was a puritan in these things and counselled against same in his book. But I'm getting rules averse in my old age. And yup, there be a little rat. Not very well camouflaged, but then he does double as my signature.

Great start! I particularly like the light in the undergrowth on the left.

Instantly recognizable as one of yours Robert. I like your palette and all the texture you've achieved in the grasses etc. A great start to the year.

You've opened 2016 with a cracker, Robert! The foreground textures fading away into the misty backdrop is really effective in creating depth and layers. Super work!

Gorgeous colours in a lovely painting Robert!

Great start for 2016 Robert! Love the colours and textures and your little Rattie.

Yes a worthy and accomlished return to the easel with a promise of more crackers to come. I will be sketching on IOW 1st to 7th July while my wife goes running with the gang.

Like the variation of Blue Robert.

Robert, can you help Julie please, she has put a comment on my After the Storm, Tixall, and needs some advice, thanks, Alan.

Great textures here Robert and I think that the russet tones in the long grass really lifts this lovely scene.