studio painting of Newlyn

Well this is nearly there. Its been a good painting day.I`ll live with it for a while and see what needs doing with fresh eyes. Maybe some people or the odd dog or even another fishing boat in the water on the left to give it some life.

Style and Plein air Painting

Plein air painting is something I have been doing all Summer. I started because a very good friend of mine Colin Ruffel see crabfish.com invited me to do so. I was against it at first as I had tried it before and found it a distraction from the studio painting and limiting as you only paint what is in front of you. In the studio is were I have worked best and have painted my finest works and were I find the creative potential in working from memory to my liking. Now I also like Plein air painting in fact I love it but the style is different. The trouble is lots of people paint in this style and to be Exhibiting in top London Galleries. Which I am, you have to be different and stand out from the crowd.I have managed to do this by painting bold sometimes blocky semi abstracted paintings which come out of me very naturally.Their very colourful and strong. In real life colours are not strong often there grey and muted. And this is the dilemma I am in. Am I a muted grey person or a strong bold person.Trouble is I like them both .I can see life in both .... to be continued

Sandy Cove

Working on the Sandy Cove paintings again this is larger 70x80cm on canvas.

Sandy Cove

Went out to my Favourite place .Sandy Cove. Following on from my last painting which has Palette knife work in the foreground I wanted to try this out again. I wasn`t out for long but managed to produce this. You might think that I am jumping about a bit from style to style but I am hoping this will all settle down . .

plein air

No this is not a photograph its me Plein air painting again. This really is an unexpected painting to come out . I love it it so far. Its a bit empty on the left so might add a little.

new painting from an old painting.

Well as promised a new version of an old painting using only the top half. l am really missing Plein air Painting and am going out this afternoon or tomorrow morning to try an capture the light on the water and the very pale sea colours. Lets see what happens?

messy place

Nothing really to show you today. I am in a messy place. Ideas are bubbling up and the canvases get messier and messier. That's how it is and it is a familiar place.When I have something to show you I will but right now... I need to splash around. I`m posting this pic of a previous picture that I can see has two halves the bottom and the top and I may paint the top half as shown as a separate picture as it looks pretty good and it will give me something to do while I am between things. so to speak..

I wish it was easy

Still splashing about like a fish in a net. Went completely of piste today and painted this very brief oil thing. The trouble is the coffee. When ever I drink coffee before 11 am I am like a freaked out creature on caffeine all jittery and speedy.Thing is I love coffee. `illy` being my favourite but my Art suffers. I wish is was easy... Its 6 pm now so I`m going to cook and have a glass of wine. Simon our next door neighbour is a Fisherman and brought a great bucket of fish over.

Mondays

I hate Mondays!! Started another Dark Newlyn

Dawlish Warren

Spent a lovely weekend in Dawlish Warren in this really very nice Hotel .Devon has red earth from the Clay and is very hilly. Even the sheep are pink from rolling around in the earth. Thats me on the right with My son Sam .Alana my Daughter and Lorraine.

Framing

Spent today and yesterday mostly framing pictures that hav`nt gone to the framers .I`m using chocolate brown frames instead of white. Lucy loved my last painting and you should visit her site attic24 . She has a great sense of design ,even her photo`s look like paintings and lives In a lovely part of the world.Tomorrow we are off too Teignmouth and staying in a fancy hotel .We are only there for one night and it should be a nice break.It has an indoor pool. Lorraine is doing Samba there at a Festival and hopefully there will be some Salsa so I can show off!

viola

viola!!

Nearly finished

This is my 4th day on this picture. The reds in the table and the vase and Flowers in the previous painting didn`t separate out very well when hung on the wall .It all just looked the same so I`ve had to work on it this morning and It`s nearly done .As I am typing I can see the picture in the frame and have an urge to turn down the orange . .I`ve left the landscape which is fine and kept the Luscious Reds .