44 x 56 cm (17 ” x 22″approx). Oil on Panel.© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Same painting as previous post, second time on location. In the rain, with exciting silver lighting effects. Probably in need of a session in the studio to tie it together. The water was…
Category: WIP work in progress
Paintings in various states of finish & unfinish. Step by step lessons in how to paint in oils. Half-finished watercolours.
Bergerac Waterfront #3 (Unfinished State)
44 x 56 cm (17 ” x 22″approx) Oil on Panel.© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Quai Salvetat vu de La Pelouse. Tableau en état de progres.Great storms & torrential rains here in the Dordogne for the last few days. I painted this the morning before the storm, with…
Vendanges – Journée Ensoleilée (finished state)
‘Vendanges – Journée Ensoleilée (finished state)’ 81 x 44 cm. Oil on canvas .© adam cope SOLD
Vendanges – Journée Ensoleillée (Unfinished State)
81 x 50 cm approx. © adam cope Another painting from my ‘cuvée vendanges 2006’. Needing to finish off my larger paintings for this year’s exhibitions, which are fast approaching. All the teaching to be done as well… tempus fuigit. repainting an oil painting – finishing an oil painting This is a slow painting, which…
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…
Pruniers #2 – Unfinished State
12 Figure (format Français) 50 x 61 cm. Oil on Canvas. Unfinished state. I had an interesting conversation with my neighbour, Monsuier Verdier whose plum orchard I’ve painted here, about ‘la lune rousse’. If the night sky is clear, the april moon will shine with a red tinge & there will be a risk of…