‘Avec Nostradamus ( La Nuit de Temps commencant à la Fontaine de St Rémy)’ Watercolour, Arches, quarter ‘jesuit’ sheet. © The Artist. 300 euros I didn’t paint this watercolour last week, as I was very busy teaching one of my Painting Holidays au Chateau de Lanquais, France night-time plein air This watercolour was another of…
Category: Tonality
Tonality in painting & drawing. Monochrome greysacle of paintings. How light/dark works in a painting? Preliminary value studies.
Notan Photograph – ‘The Wirly Gates’
‘The Wirly Gates’ 2004 © The Artist. Notan can mean something/nothing as well as dark/light Notan photography? Is the black emptiness? Photography has difficult of reading things in shadows. It frequently makes pictures with black nothingness as shadows… These digital cameras are great for ‘visual thinking’ … working things out in a visual way… kind…
Notan : ‘La Maison Peyarade, Bergerac’
‘La Maison Payarade, Bergerac’ Encre Chine. Tous Droits Reservés I’ve been following some the talk about ‘Notan’ over on Katherine Tyrell’s blog, so I thought I’d post this three-tone drawing. Not quite a Notan I know, as it’s not flat enough. Has perspective & depth rather than flat pattern. I decided to try however to…
Vignoble dans le Quercy Blanc
‘Vignoble dans le Quercy Blanc’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. sold A passer-by on internet might well assume the white in this painting to be snow. But is not. It is something far more surprising…in fact, it’s white chalk, which gives the name to the region in the Lot called ‘Quercy Blanc’. A…
painting of clouds
‘Sur Boisse, Journée Pluvieuse’25 Figure, 81 x 65 cm, Oil on Canvas. SOLD. Rainy day paintings, rain down on me, shiny white gleaming reflections under dark clouds overhead, forces beyond our control…
