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the painting struggle skip to main skip to sidebar the painting struggle friday 19 august 2016 long time since last post i ve neglected the blog for a fair old while all of the usual excuses life grandparenting football relegation fight cricket season and the joy of retirement travel none of this means that i ve packed in painting although i ve not been as prolific as i would like to be i m using this return to blogging as something of a kick up the backside to myself and hoping that i can both produce more images and more input for the blog in the meantime here are a few pieces that i ve worked on recently clementines and cup oil on gesso board 8 x 6 figs and silver cup oil on gesso board 8 x 6 posted by unknown at 06 04 2 comments wednesday 28 october 2015 venice again the opportunity to head for venice happens every now and then when life stops getting in the way and so it was that earlier in the month sheila and i managed to get a week away whilst not totally a painting trip mrs c likes to do lots of other things besides watching me paint i did manage to make oil sketches on every day that we were there i call these sketches as they were done quickly as a means of gleaning information for studio work back home a couple of early morning forays yielded the most interesting light conditions one a really colourful sky and the other a soft light prior to some rain surprises abound not only in the discovery of new corners and meeting new people one of the latter was a pleasant bit of fortune that had us meeting the wonderful watercolourist judi whitton judi has just produced a book titled painting venice on discovering this i contacted her to order a copy to find that she and her husband peter were also in venice we arranged to meet and had a charming morning discussing the city and its joys for the painter my friend peter ward has a review of the book on his blog watercolourfanatic blogspot com pete and judi whitton san giorgio maggiore oil on gesso board 7 x 5 accademia view misty morning oil on gesso board 7 x 5 as ever the city delighted and we headed home mentally preparing arrangements for our next visit posted by unknown at 16 07 2 comments labels accademia judi whitton oil painting plein air salute san giorgio maggiore venice sunday 26 july 2015 off on holiday again we are fortunate in that we have some friends who own a house on the shores of lake geneva and they offer us the opportunity to stay there it is a stunning spot and i can usually sneak a few paints into the luggage the two pictures are from our latest trip apologies for poor photographs and lack of cropping oil sketches on gesso board 7 x 5 posted by unknown at 15 29 6 comments labels gesso board lake geneva oil painting plein air wednesday 10 june 2015 life is just a bowl of cherries the new season cherries are seeming to leap off the shelves of the supermarket into my basket once home they gravitate to the studio where i am trying to home my still life technique not the easiest of subject matter to add to the complication i found a small pewter whisky measure to add to the arrangement of fruit challenging but enjoyable session cherries oil on gesso board 7 x 5 posted by unknown at 03 56 5 comments labels cherries oil painting still life wednesday 3 june 2015 back to still life after last week s run of pictures from recent trip to provence i decided to return to the still life table a visit to the local supermarket had me discovering these cherries the first of the new year sorry about the quality of the photograph i ll try to get a better one later in the week cherries oil on gessoed board 7 x 5 posted by unknown at 09 41 no comments labels cherries oil painting still life friday 29 may 2015 even more from provence another couple from last week s trip wherever you look there are painting subjects all bathed in the most wonderful light old farmhouse oil on gessoed board 10 x 8 gap in the hedge oil on gessoed board 10 x 8 posted by unknown at 04 15 1 comment labels oil painting provence tuesday 26 may 2015 more from provence a couple more from provence the garden of la madelene had all sorts of interesting nooks and crannies as well as beautiful arrays of flowers this little group of irises caught my attention and i had to have a go at getting them onto board irises at la madelene oil on board 10 x 8 we spent quite a bit of our week travelling out into the local countryside where all sorts of buildings and farm land made for arresting subject matter old farm buildings oil on board 10 x 8 posted by unknown at 12 26 4 comments labels irises oil painting plein air provence older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2016 1 august 1 long time since last post 2015 20 october 1 july 1 june 2 may 4 march 2 february 4 january 6 2014 14 december 7 november 2 october 2 june 2 march 1 2013 20 november 4 october 2 june 3 may 2 april 3 march 2 february 1 january 3 2012 53 december 3 november 2 october 3 september 5 august 6 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