St Michael”s Mount: Another Art Bar Test!

These Art Bars are  fun to use and  priduce Watercolour like  washes quickcly. This  is done  on  a canvas  bo’ard

 

Essence OF St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall

 

Essence being the spirit,the spirit of the place  that is captured, a moment in time  of what  catches  the eye

and tells us of time and place

 

Cornish Tin Mine: Inspiration or Ruin?

This painting got me thinking especially after seeing this Article iby      simonjenkins recently.

The painting is inspired by the coast of Cornwall and certain part of cornwall do have these remains of Tin Mines

The tall chimneys being landmarks of the coast and just as much part of the coast as the cliffs themselves.

So to argue that ruins should serve a useful purpose is perhaps forgetting the point,would the cliffs be the same without the mine?

Another interesting site for more background on Cornish Tin Mining is Mining In Cornwall

 

Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947) View of Penzance From Newlyn

This lovely summer scene of Mounts Bay from Newlyn reminds us of happy summer days.

Stanhope Forbes was drawn to the are in part because of the people as much as the scenery. He became known as the Father of The Newlyn School of Painters

 

A Cornish Boat

This a Cornish Boat! How Do I know it is a Cornish boat? Well The PZ stands for Penzance and all boats registerd there have the initials PZ

 

St Michael’s Mount:Painting

St Michael”s  sitting there in the bay at dawn, the sea a mackerel grey but calm overhead a weather system passes eastwards

 

William H.Barttlett 1858-1932

A  pleasant scene of boats in the harbour at St Ives painted around 1885, at a time when St Ives was a artist Colony and attracting many artists down to that part of the world to capture the light.

 

Harold Knight R.A 9(1874-1961) The Girl And The Picture

signed Harold Knight l.r.

inscribed Oak Hill / St Buryan / Cornwall

oil on canvas

60 1/4 x 50.5″

Formal and Proud

Standing by the window

looking at the view

by the painting

she so much admired

 

Painting in Progress

Remember the painting in progress a couple of posts back? well things change and more texture added . Happy with the overall effect but some work needs to be done on the right hand side.

This next one is a small 7x5inches and at the moment it keeps changing still a bit to much white. It is of Newlyn in Cornwall looking out to St Micheal’s Mount

 

William Trost Richards (1835-1905)

This Striking painting was painted be the American painter William Trost Richards and shows Lands Land in Cornwall at its most dramatic.
You can almost feel the spray of the sea in this painting and I like the golden light the painter achieves,
I shall certainly be returning to this artist again as he paid 3 or 4 visits to Britain and all his paintings deserve a airing,I