Month: Jul 2020

A sunny morning

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Horniman gardens

Today I have been at the Horniman Museum gardens in South London.  I had a small pack of cards and envelopes made of Khadi paper, a handmade watercolour paper from India.  I found a quiet place to sit overlooking the formal gardens, seen above.  Without much plan of what I would do, I started with a very conventional view of the flowers.  I then decided to simplify and enlarge the images, and to start with backgrounds based on the formality of the rows and angles of the flower beds, adding flowers to these backgrounds, working quite quickly.

 

Outdoor sketching again

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As a consequence of the pandemic and the lockdown, I went several months without sketching on location in London or elsewhere.  However, cautiously, I and my friend Lis Watkins have returned to sketching outdoors near our homes in south London.  We are fortunate to have some beautiful parks and gardens which provide safe and reasonably quiet places to draw and paint.  Some of Lis’s beautiful work can be seen on her website which has links to her Instagram page and twitter account where her sketches are posted.  The locations of my sketches here are, from top to bottom:

  • Horniman Gardens (above)
  • Walled garden, Horniman Gardens
  • Belair House, Dulwich
  • Olive tree, Belair House
  • Dry Garden, Dulwich Park
  • Bell House, Dulwich

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This week’s challenge

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The project for my watercolour class this week was to paint a landscape influenced by the work of Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979).  Hitchens’ most well known works are semi-abstract landscapes painted in oils, and quite large in scale.  To take a more bold approach I worked in gouache with quite large, flat brushes.  First I painted three smaller studies:

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My larger painting is here. An interesting experiment, although not much like the paintings of Hitchens, in either palette or brushstrokes.

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