Landscapes

After doing the colour samples all the rest of my art time is taken up with looking at the landscape and taking photos as visual references.  The autumn landscape shone with bleached fields cut to the ground and vertical and horizontal stripes of colour everywhere you looked.   During the heavy frosts the colours were amazing blends of [...]

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Paint samples

Another day and I have done some more samples on canvas, though still not achieving the marks I want to make. I tried mixing oils with white spirit and oil paint with raw linseed oil and oil paint with stand oil. It’s basically trying to thin the paint to the consistancy I require without losing [...]

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