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A quick landscape  painting in watercolour, a rare event for me, but one I quite enjoyed, certainly much quicker and easier  than acrylics ,but there is always the problem of framing watercolours having to protect them behind glass and the resultant reflections , this is to me the big benefit of acrylics, no glass not even a frame if I paint the edges to complement the face image ! no reflection the image is clearly visible from any viewpoint.

I used photos I took many years ago when I lived in Orkney, and this was a favourite place to walk my dog, the beach at Evie a fabulous place to watch bird life I recall vividly the sound of long tailed ducks in winter and the myriad list of waders I spotted here

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I ‘ve used a palette knike and impasto gel to bring the foreground poppies and wheat forward, increasing the depth in the painting,

I very rarely use this technique , I have only used it for the rocks and beaches on seascapes, but it seems to work very well here, it has certainly achieved the desired effect.

For the poppies I used a mix of Cadmium yellow and Cadmium red hue with some Crimson and white mixed with impasto gel medium.

This is an iconic Yorkshire , North of England, scene, and is only about 5 mile north of where I live , from the plane of York, we are looking past Thirkleby church to the Hamleton Hills , Sutton Bank and the famous White Horse.

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The really detailed landscape work is finished,I need to do a little more work on the trees, then it’s on to the poppy fields in the forground,

 depending on how it looks ,I have it in my mind to put in one or two large detailed studies of poppies in the foreground, but it may not work out that way, and I’ve just noticed the two cumulus clouds sitting above the church spire,I will have to do something with them , they look really odd!

I also think one or two more trees in the middle distance would create more depth, especially when I’ve finished glazing over the painting as it is now, every thing needs to be pushed back a bit I’ve deliberately painted church and trees in bold tones to allow me to use a glaze over the top

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I could also title this painting Sutton Bank or the White Horse, as this is the distant view, but it will be Thirkleby church that will be  the focal point

 This is the third time I have painted this scene, and each time the original has sold immediately , in fact the last one sold before I had finished it ! so as I have a few local exhibitions in the near future I thought it would be a good subject to do again, the view is only about 5 miles from where I live and I pass it on the A19 regularly, some years the field is bright yellow with oilseed, but I just love the view when the cereal crop is full of poppies.

I’ve spent 2 days getting the painting to this stage, next to do is the middle distance  some varied mature trees and Thirkleby church, then the poppy field !

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Having spent last evening looking at this painting on our lounge wall I have decided to remove the figures , they detracted from the scene I felt, the scene is one that I enjoyed  at the time, had there been anyone else there I would have waited untill they were well out of sight before I continued my walk, I like to have that feeling of aloneness when I am up in the hills and other people in sight spoils it for me.

The figure also spoilt the effect I have tried to create, of distance and depth , they created a focal point  that stopped the eye travelling into the scene.

I have tried to take your eye on a journey down, around the hills and bends in the river valley, to the far distant hills that are  catching the rays of sunlight .

there are several focal pointers, the corner of the wal,l the trees, the river showing through, and the folds of hills , all leading the eye into the distance

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at last, 2 long days in the studio and now it is completed at last,

based on photos taken when I was walking earlier this year, geographically it is more or less correct , the 3 trees are there as is the formation of the walls, I have accentuated the colour in the foreground to add depth , I wanted to recreate the feeling when I took the photos , that I was standing on the edge of a precipice, it was certainly a very steep and long drop , I hope that comes across from the painting

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I started this painting several weeks ago before getting involved with other stuff, like portraits and commissions for animal paintings , thigs that paid me money !

It’s nice to get back to something completely different and a lovely landscape,

 I can remember vividly the day I took the photos I am working from, it was quite cloudy, odd blustery showers , but the sun would light up the scenery from time to time , especially the distant hills , bringing out the colours of the heather and bracken quite vividly.

the next stage of the painting process  is to put in a stone wall and three bare barren trees and hopefully recreate the feeling that you are standing at the edge of a precipice looking down into the valley. the fore ground was very rocky I remember , so I think I will make use of my pallette knife and paint all the forground impasto  which will help give more depth to the painting.

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This is the start of a painting of upper Swaledale from photographs I took  when I walked up the valley from Reeth following the river to cross at the bridge  and returned over the moor and hill tops about 10 miles in total, a lovely walk in a beutifull area.

I always feel better about starting a piece when I have some paint on most or all of the canvas, this time I’ve unusually gone the hole hog and covered the entire canvas with a sketch of the hills in a base colour, it was quite a cloudy day some sunlight penetrating the clouds and lighting up parts of the distant hills very  atmospheric , bleak and beautiful, and I hope to capture some of that feeling in this painting.

Next stage is to put some detail into the sky and the very distant hills , but that will have to wait till tomorrow when the paint I’ve applied is totally dry

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this is the finished paintin,the Barns are no doubt the main focal point 1/3 up and 1/3 in, but the sunburst is a secondary one , again 1/3 down and 1/3 in,the eye is moved from one to the other and then down to the far distant landscape, the third focal point.
So I feel I have achieved my objective, a painting of a beautifull atmospheric scene,with more than one focalpoint , so that the viewer is taken on a visual journey

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Have added here, the distant landscape and subdued the tones with a thin glaze to give added depth , but I hope to have added sufficient detail to draw the eye in the completed painting creating another focal point

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