Tag: Dead tree
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Art During a Heatwave / Night Work
So last Monday/Tuesday where I live had a heatwave – which is unusual for the UK. Bushy Park registered 39.2C beating the previous record, and nearby Heathrow registered 40.2C and Kew Gardens 40.1C, a record only beaten by 0.1 by a place in Lincolnshire. So how to work as a landscape artist in a heatwave?…
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Richmond Park 2: KillCat Corner, Lilies and Pink Sunglasses
Showing how my plein air use of media has broadened only since March, here is the second selection of work in Richmond Park. These works include pieces in black woody pencil, bright paint stick works, moody watercolour, dark fountain pen and ink, and inktense paints. Although as part one discussed, there is a desperation and…
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Mirk Wood 2 (Richmond Park)
A return at the start of this year to Richmond Park and the area I call Mirk Wood and it saw some New Rules – bigger, more colour, new mediums like the paint sticks, back to oils (sort of), and different butcher types of sketchbooks, sgraffito, and more sculptural ink sketches, very much inspired by…
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Parklife Part 2: Parakeet Sunsets
I was painting a picture of some wild mushrooms today, as you do during Mynktober/Inktober and a man came up and asked what I was doing. We got chatting and he asked my name and whether I had work of Richmond Park, his local park. Well I do have quite a few pieces, and I…
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Parklife 1: Those By Ice Houses Should Draw Cranes
Let’s go hand in hand to look at the park life as since The River Ban I’ve been working a lot in Home Park and Bushy Park, adjacent but very different deer parks. First up is a revisit to the Ice House in Home Park which has been a regular subject for years – but…
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