I was commissioned recently to make a painting of two classic cars, a Morgan and an Austin. Pictured in these rather blurred photographs is the result. I’m afraid I know absolutely nothing about the motors; I generally refer to cars by colour and size e.g. “it’s a big green one”, so I can’t provide much…
Tag: red
Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #4
This study is a follow-up to previous sketches of the same amaryllis plant, and was painted 5 days after the last post (see Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #3), on 16 January 2015. At this point the amaryllis was in full flower, looking at its blooming best. The 16 January painting, pictured here, was…
Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #3
A follow-up post to earlier paintings of the same plant. By the time I made this sketch, 6 days after study #2 and 24 days after study #1, this red amaryllis was almost in full flower. I was intending to make this A4 study a more-or-less ‘pure’ watercolour painting with the merest of initial…
A Poinsettia isn’t Just for Christmas
With a few hours to spare today I thought I’d attempt the production of a semi-festive, seasonal painting. I don’t know why poinsettias are so closely related to Christmas (perhaps some research might have been in order here) but accepting that they are, I felt they’d make a good subject for a quickie. The most…
Guilt and Gladioli
I was intending on having a lazy, relaxing Saturday today. However, when I saw these red gladioli in a vase, guilt got the better of me and I felt compelled to have a go at capturing them in paint. I made the resulting painting fairly quickly, in a little over 2 hours, in Daler-Rowney Georgian…
Drawing Upon Life 