Venice Sketch

This is of a sketch done in Venice a few years ago.
venice is magic and there are still quite places that you can find off the beaten track,best times to go are probably May or October

J.M.W.Turner

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Put together two magical ingredients, in this case Venice and J.M,W.Turner  and you have a gigantic  reaction of creativity

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Painting Update

Thought I had better show more of my piantings.
A group of paintings on a Mediterranean theme. i rather like the effect of these.

the main side of the plynth showing some more paintings, this time on wood. Venice is  creeping in here!

Remember island from the air? part polyfilla? Well now I have mad them into landscapes [...]

TURNER AND VENICE

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The Grand Canal Venice (Metropoliton museum New York}
Here is another Turner. Turner is perhaps my favourite artist. his use of light and the scale of his paintings always inspire.
This Painting was painted in 1835.
The mixture of water and light that is Venice lets Turner show his skills as a painter at his best