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Good morning everyone. After many years of thinking about it, I have finally started painting in oils. I know, I should have taken the plunge earlier! Anyway, I’d like to show you some of the small paintings on paper that I’ve already done.
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This is ‘The Path up to the Barn’, from one of my own photos on a trail next to a country park, a few minutes drive from my house. Actually, all the paintings are scenes from short walks in my neighbourhood. And, I think it must be true that you as an artist put much more into a painting if you know the location well. Of course, I had read this many times, but having just completed 13 paintings in a few weeks, it seems so obvious to me.
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This is another view from the same path ‘Sun’s Come Out’. Ironically, this was the first, and I prefer the freedom of the brushstrokes – I’ll show some of the others in my next post.