Looking out to sea the artist contemplates the next move, soaks in the atmosphere of the sea as it crashes against the rocks down below.Squinting her eyes to look at something distant that has caught her eye,the image burns on the minds eye for a while simmers and stored away for future reference.
The sound of the sea and the seagulls and the smell of the sea, the moment is now and here and forever.

Both paintings are 6inches x4inches and Acrylic.

We are moving nearer winter when the days sometimes never really seem to get light, a time of lots of sunrise ans sunsets as the days are shorter.

Playing around with the colour red here as well, red is a strong coloure so needs dilluting a bit browns go well representing the earth

This is just seeing if I can do it as the idea has been in the back of my mind for some time.I cannot for the life of me remember the correct name for Three paintings together perhaps someone can enlighten me!
The power of Twitter strikes again! have the name I was looking for thanks to twitter friends

Here aare some brilliant images by Terry Frost.Chosen at random because I just enjoyed the colour,connections with Newlyn and Cornwall

Colour Rhythm Newlyn
Lithograph, 1997

Frisky (detail) Sir Terry Frost 2003

Sir Terry Frost screenprint “Malaga Blue and Orange”

The first of a series I think,this somewhat of a new departure a journey into abstraction. it still wants to be landscape but…could be a form of mind map or even thought forms something known but unseen,sensed.

It wants to be something but it is not…..

I feel there is more to happen with this new series so stay tuned!

Standing on a Rock

absorbing the landscape before the eye

Master of all

Owner of none

Nature Surpreme

The person on the rock reminds me of the  famous painting by Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Still in drawing mode!

Drawing has a different energy to that of painting, perhaps obvious but worth stating here. There is a more direct connection between the hand and the mind for one thing and can be a lot harder to do. You do not have to be a good drawer to be a painter or good painter to be able to draw. The two energies can be quite seperate. Maybe if you want accuracy in your paintings say as a watercoloulerst then maybe.,  the two energies combine over the use of perspective etc but then that is another energy as well. Creativity is made up of so many different Energies all waiting to form a piece of Art, the coming together at the one time called now

By the light of the moon

the old tree stands

old and worn

twisted shape

still hope

standing there

by the light of the Moon

Mixed Media 7insx5ins

The winters sun rising at the coast is special,the sound of the waves everything fresh for the new day….the sun begins its short journey across the sky.

The image in the cover of this book is what its been like in this part of the world  wet!!

Charles Ginner was the Artist and the tile of the painting is “Flask Walk” You cuould call the artist a painter of social realism and his paintings show life as it was .

The book is worth  a read  J.B .Priestley being a writer of social realism