Friday 24 August 2012

Hidden!!!



This photo was taken by my brother in law on our day out the other weekend for my husband's 60th birthday weekend. The whole family had a tour around the Yorkshire Dales and this was taken from a walk we had along the River Lune at Kirkby Lonsdale, We both spotted this lovely property sort of hidden from view so, as we seem to be doing more of recently, you photograph them, I'll paint 'em!!!!

This was another that painted itself, about 40 minutes, though I have been doing lots of thinking about it, no drawing, straight in with the paint, but not much to be drawn on this really so not too difficult..... buildings are another subject I haven't done much of but am going to do some more in the future, we have such a lot of beautiful historic buildings in the North of England crying to be painted and maybe I'm the woman for the job!!! I certainly have a fantastic resource with Johns' photos so no excuse there!! In fact I am getting quite a store of photos I want to paint and hopefully the more I step outside my comfort zone the easier they will become.

I am quite happy with this, I like how the photo has translated to the painting (one of the main problems for artists) and the level of "looseness" about it. Stuck to a fairly limited palette for the bulk of it, cob blue, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, cad yellow then touches of May green, raw sienna and green gold.

12 comments:

  1. You wrote "lovely property sort of hidden" and you painted it in a manner that you done great justice to those words. It has all the beauty and the mystery of something that prefers to be sort of hidden! I like it very much, Judith!!
    I have a question, if I may; do you think is better to draw before paint(specially with watercolour) or not? and if so, how you get rid of the pencil lines after?
    Warm regards.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi Konstantina... ask me all the questions you would like and I will try my best to answer them. Thank you for the lovely comments. As for the drawing, Jean Haines recommends painting without the use an initial drawing and the idea is, it helps you keep the spontaneity of the painting, as you aren't bound by the lines of a drawing. The point is you have to be a very skilled drawer to be able to paint anything without a preliminary sketch and I do use pencil on more challenging subjects.

    Some people like to see the pencil lies in the finished piece but I tend to use a rubber and get rid of as many as I can. The main reason I paint without drawing is I can't wait to start painting so to draw with the brush lets me paint sooner than if I have to do a graphite drawing!!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you so much for the feedback, Judith!!

      Delete
  3. Isn't it great having a stack of brilliant photos you can pick and choose from - and someone you can request subjects from too! I had my eye on this when it was uploaded to PMP - a great photo and a great painting!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hi Sharon...yes really helpful to have your own photographer around and like Gary, John is very generous with his and will take any I might think of. You did a very good one of this and I will come back to it but so many other things to paint as well!!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Dear judith, this watercolor is beautiful, and without preliminary drawing, a great job. The photis nice but the watercolor is better, more light and the green very well solve. Congratulations. Hugs

    ReplyDelete
  6. Oh thank you Eva, much appreciate you taking the time to stop by and leave a comment. I feel quite happy with this and the only thing I am wondering about is the compostion of the vignette, the white areas, think maybe they need tweaking?

    ReplyDelete
  7. I think it,ve got a perfect cmposition, the white areas don,t need tweaking. It is my opinion. Warm regards.

    ReplyDelete
  8. I think it's perfect as it is, the white areas don't need any tweaking at all!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Ok will leave as it is!!! Am not sure what it might need anyway... maybe a mount and frame!!!! Thank you Eva and Margaret, good of you to take a look!!

    ReplyDelete
  10. lovely ..wonderful subject judith ...sounds like you had a good w-e celebrating

    ReplyDelete
  11. Thanks Jane yes we had a wonderful time... all the family together which I knew would be what he wanted....

    ReplyDelete

Would like to thank you all for taking the time to visit my blog, why not leave me a message then I know you've popped by!! If you have any enquiries please send me an e-mail to

judesfarnworth@hotmail.com