The Yellow Field
A painting from a few years ago (acrylic on canvas, 78″ x 64″) while we visit our beautiful new granddaughter for a couple of days.
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 15 – 21.7.15 – in progress
Chapter title: Taking inspiration from an oil painting: rapid studies in pencil and watercolour. The painting is a detail from Turner’s The Shipwreck 1805, part of the Turner Bequest at Tate Britain where it is on display in the Turner collection.
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 13 – 19.7.15
John Ruskin; on learning to see.
For Day 200 of Studio 365 here is a look back at some of the paintings from the last 100 days.
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 11 – 17.7.15
Today’s chapter: John Constable: ‘natural’ sky paintings
How often have I marvelled at his great painting The Hay Wain on many trips to the National Gallery in London as a young boy. The scene was painted near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, which was owned by his father. I recently visited this hallowed spot which has changed little over the last two hundred years. All that were missing were the magnificent clouds of his painting.
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 10, – 16.7.15

Today’s chapter is entitled, Thomas Girtin: the power of white.
Thomas Girtin was a contemporary of Turner who said of him, “If Tom Girtin had lived, I should have starved.”
This painting of Venice from 2008 was inspired by Turner’s Venetian watercolours and seemed appropriate to post after my last three exercises from the chapter in Lesson’s from the Great Master’s entititled Joseph Mallord William Turner: colour harmony.