Ober Water, New Forest.

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Great painting Bob.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Tue 25 Apr 12:53:26

I agree, lovely.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Tue 25 Apr 13:04:07

A lovely sunlit piece. The reflection is beautifully done.

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Tue 25 Apr 13:48:11

I like this very much - fresh colours and interesting marks - the neutral tint seems to have worked well, but is not obvious. Like the purples and bright yellows.

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Tue 25 Apr 15:11:06

I like this very much too. Caught my eye.

Posted by Shirley May on Tue 25 Apr 22:41:27

Works beautifully. I love the water.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Wed 26 Apr 07:48:07

Lovely reflections and I love the range of colours on the trunks.

Posted by Karen Comber on Wed 26 Apr 20:27:14

Thank you for your kind comments folks, I have only just thought out how I can say this by using one of my own, as I'm newish to Painters Online !

Posted by Bob Biggart on Wed 03 May 15:21:16

This is lovely! Especially the foreground area which I find engaging if that's the right word.

Posted on Sun 14 May 21:21:16

Hang on Studio Wall

25/04/2017

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This is a painting done of a New Forest stream ...the Ober Water, in Rhinefield. It is from an original photograph by Mary Osborn. I'm not quite sure about how it went as it was a struggle at times. Initially, it all looked a bit similar in tones, so I tried following Paul Talbot-Greaves advice by creating an image of it and using a photo editing programme on my computer to see how it would look by darkening parts within the wood. This helps avoid potential disaster when you alter a painting and then wish you hadn't. Once I was happy with the appearance, I applied a wash of neutral tint over the parts that I wanted to have a darker tone. I used my normal palette, but for a change used Winsor Blue instead of Cerulean, and Indigo for some of the darker parts of the water and reflections. The paper was Arches Not 140lb for a change from Khadi.

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Bob Biggart

I'm an amateur artist who started to paint in watercolours about 1990, when I found that the watercolours I admired in galleries were way beyond my price range. My thinking was that in time I might be able to produce paintings that I could hang on my wall at home, and be happy with. At the…

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