New York Perhaps

Mixed Media 7×5ins
This painting reminds me a bit of New York . You are looking up and all around as you do in New York, The Flags and the buldings so tall and amazing to the eye the senses become overwhelmed with all the impression.

Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986

 
 

Painting of New York at night….

Georgia O Keeffe a great artist and wonderful painter, Her New York skyscrapers were amazing works of art I think and as I am in a Skyscraper mood over at my other artythings blog

Gauguin (1848-1903)

Landscape with a Horse 1899

Brittany Landscape , Musuem of Fine Arts Boston

Painted 1903 located Athenaum Musuem
These painting were chosen at random the common theme being trees, I was interested in the fact that trees seem important Paul Gauguin and they appear often in his paintings He is perhaps one of one of the great post [...]

Experimental Scrapeing and Scratchings

6×4ins
These two paintings are really experiments in scratchings and scrapings plus a bit of mono type printing which I may show at a future date.Basicly using Acrylic and Pallet Knife with what has been shown

The pylon looms large but can be a source of inspiration,though can obscure views of the countryside.

INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE ONLINE #Martha Marshall

I first met Martha Marshall when were over at Blogger back in 2007/8 . Blogger was behaving badly and Martha upt sticks and moved over to WordPress, i soon followed because i saw how nice her site was and there seemed to be no uploading problems with images
Martha is an Inspiring artist and creates [...]

Some Colour!

Matisse born in the same year as the Cutty Sark was launched is a favourite painter of mine and I just love his use of colourThere is so much you coluld say about him but this is only a quick post to let you know I am still around!

A Summers Afternoon In Chichester

I just love the way this man is sitting reading his newspaper.

There was a game of cricket going on which just goes to show……

…what a engrossing exciting game it can be?????

Only the Enlish could invent a Game that can last Fivedays and end in a draw,especially as we have such a unpredictable climate, but I [...]

John Linnell 1792-1882

This is a good drawing from a recently discovered artist that I have found well i did not know about him and I am overwhelmed by his draftsmanship.

He was a landscape painter and seems to be have been most prolific

Even this simple study shows something of interest

…..and this study.
yes I shall be returning to him [...]

Saturday Clouds

The clouds were interesting Saturday Morning and the contrast between the blue sky and white cloud led to some good cloudscapes.

Hydrangeas

I do like Hydrangeas and this close up and cropped photo works well

This is a good Mature Hydrangea now and just carries on growing, again these photos are from the garden where I live.