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Beach, Winter Evening, 4 inch square gallery wrap canvas, 1.5 ins deep, Vivien Blackburn
Winter evening light at the beach, acrylic on deep sided, gallery wrap canvas, another for the Etsy shop.
looking at the light and the beach/landscape ? yes :>)
Over the past few years I've dug my heels in and insisted that the house we stay at on holiday MUST have a sea view - so I get to see the light in bad weather and all times of day :>) and can sketch at odd moments while others are busy.
It's so wonderful watching rain approach across the beach in a silvery veil and finally reach your windows, with a rainbow that ends on the beach just before that:>) especially from the warmth and dryness of the house!
Vivien Blackburn's work in the Urban/Rural show We've just hung a group show at the The Eye Project, Urban/Rural show. If you want to come and see it it's on for a month - well worth seeing, 11 lovely artists and some fabulous work. Those large canvasses are 40 inches square. There are rural landscapes, flowerscapes, intriguing textile work including a large knitted building, abstracts .... something for everyone. It's in the gallery below the cafe in the Adult Education Centre at the top of Wellington street, Leicester, opposite Fenwicks. Meet the Arttists day is Saturday 1st April 10-2. Come and have a chat with us?
Close up of tree bark, Marqueyssac, France. photo: Vivien Blackburn Another challenge Rather than another update on the seascapes I've decided to run another challenge in response to feedback from the trees post. Feedback from people said they got a lot out of the skies challenge and I'm sure you will out of this one :>) click the image on the left to link to the original post on trees and you can check all posts with the tag 'trees' here The challenge is to produce sketches of trees done from life. These can be: close ups, extreme close ups, whole tree, part of tree, distant views - whatever you want. Style: anything goes - photorealism to impressionism but with underlying observation Medium: your choice, anything goes :>) oil paints, acrylics, watercolours, mixed media, charcoal, graphite, coloured pencils, pen, oil pastels, pastels, pastel pencils ....... etc etc etc Timescale: we'll finish at the end of July and I'll post links to your blogs t
This is a page of watercolour studies of pansies, not intended to be 'a painting', I did a while ago that I came across. It's a grey rainy day and the light isn't good to get on with the canvasses so I decided to try to pull it together as a composition. I used a bit more watercolour and coloured pencils and cropped it and added the soft blue green background to cool it down a little - the colours felt too hot. The deep dark pansies were really velvety and intense and maybe not the colour scheme I would have set out to use with the orange and pale yellows - but the background helps to knit them together. Bringing the soft mauves into the darker flowers also helped. I also took another look at a mixed media woodland that was unfinished and worked a little more on that. It has a little oil pastel in the early stages, watercolour and then coloured pencils.
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You must spend happy hours just looking?
looking at the light and the beach/landscape ? yes :>)
Over the past few years I've dug my heels in and insisted that the house we stay at on holiday MUST have a sea view - so I get to see the light in bad weather and all times of day :>) and can sketch at odd moments while others are busy.
It's so wonderful watching rain approach across the beach in a silvery veil and finally reach your windows, with a rainbow that ends on the beach just before that:>) especially from the warmth and dryness of the house!