‘Terre Rouge, Printemps’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available terre rouge (fr) = red earth (en) The red earth again, this time making a startling tapestry with the fresh, bright green growth of spring. For more about the iron mars red soil, see previous post ‘Terre Rouge, Appelation de Cahors’
Category: 30 X 40 oil
Small oil paintings measuring 30 x 40 cm. Mostly plein-air studies, which I made as part of my attempt at ‘a painting a day’…
Fauvist Barns 1 : Muted Red & not Heightened Colour – American Fauve Barns, Wolf Kahn
‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available Old Tobacco Drying Barns The South West is where most of France’s tobacco is grown. This is an old drying barn (sechoir), not far from my house. In these types of barns, alot of work goes on, as the leaves are hung…
Saule
30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. ©. Sold. High grass, bluey tints, another ‘vieux tetard’ (coppiced willow) here in St.Dizier. the right size for plein-air painting Nice to be swinging the brush around again in a more natural way (natural to me, that it is), after having made the mistake of trying to fit…
Château de Biron
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. One of the exceptional things about the South West is the sheer density of history. You go out for a drive, and not too infrequently when you turn around a corner, you see a huge chateau or a crumbling medieval church or a house built into a cliff…
L’Orée du Bois
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. Back in the green Dordogne. Hot day. Much photosynthesis. High grass, the farmers all busy with the cutting of hay.
St. Cirq Lapopie #2
Some things about this painting were niggling me, so this is now as far as i can take this image. Generally, about painting architecture in oils in small scale paintings, such as 30 x 40 cm…. difficult! At least,it’s a subject I’ve always preferred to tackle in drawing & watercolour. I find it easier to…
Oak Branches (finished state)
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. small-sized ‘alla prima’ paintings Finished after a session in the studio. Making paintings ‘en plein air’ is a complicated process & it differs from painting to painting. No two happen in the same way. Each have their own specific way of unfolding. Some seem to just pop out,…
Oak Branches (unfinished state)
30 x 40cm. Oil on panel. First leaves of oak, with a bronzey tinge – ‘bronzage’ (presumably not bronzed from the sunshine). The sun is now getting hot, the land expiring alot of moisture, a mist hanging over the meadows, the grass knee high. I had to break off painting this because a flock of…
Vieux Têtards
30 x 40 cm . Oil on panel. vieux têtards (fr) = old coppiced willows (en) Same coppiced willows but from the otherside this time. Contre-jour late afternoon, the spring sun light shining on the leaves. Sivery undersides. You can just about make out Henri’s ‘ haras’ or horse riding track in the foreground. He…
Terre Rouge, Appellation de Cahors.
‘Terre Rouge, Appellation de Cahors.’ 30 x40 cm. Oil on Panel. Another thing surprising thing about the Quercy Blanc region is ‘La Terre Rouge’, the red soil that seeps out from underneath the white chalk strata. It’s a heavy clay soil rich in rust (red iron oxide). In the mid-ground, you can just about make…
