Snow Geese (Gouache on 140lb Arches Not, approx 7"x5")

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Lovely.

Posted by Rikke Jergyes on Thu 31 Mar 20:27:29

Lovely 🙂

Posted by Faye Patrick on Thu 31 Mar 20:49:10

This is beautiful

Posted by anne cooper on Thu 31 Mar 21:58:35

The limited colour palette has worked really well, good one Bob

Posted by Heather Love on Fri 01 Apr 06:57:12

Agree with Heather, the limited palette works really well. Lovely painting.

Posted by Jenny Harris on Fri 01 Apr 07:23:55

I think this works really well, and the dry brush and spatter on the reeds is very effective

Posted by Colin Cripps on Fri 01 Apr 10:46:26

Beautiful.

Posted by Emma Price on Fri 01 Apr 13:40:18

Very nice indeed

Posted by Hilary Pendlebury on Fri 01 Apr 14:54:28

A big thank you for all your comments. I forgot to say that almost all the background to the painting was done with Rosemary and CO’s long handled Evergreen flat brushes that I was given by my sister, which I found to have an ideal amount of softness and spring for gouache.I was also using a UGo pochard palette and painting with the paper almost vertical. Because of a neck problem I have found that my normal angle …almost flat, gives me some pain so I’m trying this new approach. Bob.

Posted by Bob Biggart on Fri 01 Apr 19:57:57

Fabulous!

Posted by Diane Boswell on Sat 02 Apr 16:22:50

Thank you Diane.

Posted by Bob Biggart on Sun 03 Apr 19:57:16

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2022

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This painting was painted from a paused Youtube Video by Daniel J Cox when he was trying out a new lens for his camera on a Nature Reserve in New Mexico, where he took lovely footage of overwintering migrant birds. It was painted using a very limited Palette of Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, Ultramarine and Cobalt blue, and a red, plus Black and White....I'm still on a learning curve with Gouache.

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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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