WORK IN PROGRESS – WIP ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne’ ETAPE …. En Progres … Oil on Canvas 65 x 54cm (approx 25,5 x 21,5 inches). © The Artist. Le cingle = the meander of the dordogne at Limeuil FINISHED STATE ETAPE FINALE HOMAGE À CÉZANNE Too much like Cézanne? Ahh maitre Cézanne, you…
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WIP : compositional sketch & tonal ‘notan’
WIP ….WORK IN PROGRESS – watercolour – a tonal ‘notan’……WIP I’ve been working on a large oil painting these last three weeks. A commission. It’s 130 x 81 cm – approx 51 x 32 inches. Bigger than my usual size. Good to be doing something different. A lot of work, which I’ll post as WIPs…
Spring Greens – WIP : Large Plein-Air Oil
This is a commission 🙂 It’s great to be doing a large plein-air oil again 🙂 It will take several more sessions on site & several more back in the studio. Way bigger than usual, so good to be working ‘out of the habitual box’. Tables & studio easel outside, on the edge of a…
Life’s a Beach
bright spring yellows – Matisse on shock
‘Printemps, Dropt’ Medium Size Oil on Canvas 12 paysage format francais © The Artist. Incredible rebirth of the leaves, yellow gold in the bright white sunlight. The thing is just how do you use colour ? Here’s another painting of the same scene a few weeks earlier, just before the leaves opened, dating from 2007:…
La Dordogne à Lalinde 2 – L’Eau et les Rêves, Gaston Bachelard.
‘Ilots, La Dordogne à Lalinde’ Medium Size Oil on canvas x 40cm (approx 30 x 14 inches). © The Artist I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called le Vallage for the great number of its valleys. The most beautiful of its places for me was…
Poplar Grove, Dusk
‘Poplar Grove, Dusk ‘ Oil on MDF panel 33 x 41cm (approx 13 x 16 inches) – 6 figure format francais © adam cope These groves of trees are planted not far from the river Dropt. All straight & square, they are grown for cardboard boxes. I like openness & airiness of the groves. Not…
WIP: Lay-in, Large Oil, Plein Air
WORK IN PROGRESS – WIP 81 x 65 cm (approx 32 x 26 “) This large work in progress from last year… again now is the time the poplars are in bloom… ‘bronzage’, with their bronze crimson yellow catkins on white-grey-violet trunks with yellow fungus… Why so big? Why o why why? Humanly impossible to…
La Dordogne à Lalinde 1
‘La Dordogne à Lalinde 1’ Medium Size Oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm © adam cope The same little islands – ‘îlots’ en francais – as in these paintings down from the opposite bank. ‘ Îlots, Pontours 1’ Medium size oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm © adam cope ‘ Îlots, Pontours 2’…
La Dordogne à Beynac 2
‘La Dordogne à Beynac 2’ Aquarelle 28 x 38 xm (approx 11 x 15 “). © adam cope number two of two paintings see painting number one “the light’s changed…”