Thistles by Tessa Gwynne

Lovely work, Tessa.

It's lovely, super.

Love this one Tessa particularly how you've defined the foreground plants.

This is a beauty. Love the wild thistles against the calm of the field. Excellent painting of difficult (for some) to-do thistles.

Captured very well Tessa a delightful composition

Summer at its very best Tessa. Love this little gem of a painting.

Lovely composition and harmonious palette Tessa.

I agree, beautiful little painting

Excellent colours, nicely done.

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Thank you all very much for your positive and very welcome comments! 🙏

This is superb Tessa and beautifully painted.

An excellent hours work Tessa it says summer.

Lovely work Tessa

Simple composition that works well here…I like the colour palette as well…

Thank you all. Your encouragement drives me on!

I like this! The colours, texture, composition all work well.

My first thought on seeing this - how much better it is than any photo, however good, could be; a Summer palette, simply (i.e. cleverly and skilfully!) painted.

Beautifully painted Tessa.

Terrific painting Tessa. I especially like the treatment of the bottom left foreground rough grass and thistles. Beautiful harmony.

A charming piece of work

Thanks again all, much appreciated. I had read the article on Plein air painting by Haidee Jo in The Artist which mentioned leaving off one’s palette a favourite colour so I left out cadmium yellow which I use a lot of normally, and liked the result. It’s a fairly limited palette in general.

Fabulous Tessa - love the texture in your paint.