A good Friday afternoon on Good Friday in the studio. Wishing everyone a happy and safe Easter weekend as our thoughts are once again of those in Washington on yet another sad day in the American capital.
landscape painting
spirit found spirits lost
Today’s painting from the studio this afternoon is from the Nature Trail in the Pacific Spirit Park, which we enjoyed on our walk this morning. After I left the studio I learned that while I was painting another mass shooting was taking place in Boulder Colorado, which is why I am dedicating my painting of this special place to those who lost their lives in another senseless crime that has left more loved ones grieving once again who are all in our thoughts tonight.
from pencil to paint
From days of pencilling a return to painting in the studio this afternoon with this Pacific Spirit Park study – acrylic on paper.
after the weekend
Back home to an afternoon in the studio after a wonderful family weekend away.
Miss them both already.
studio spirit
Pacific Spirit Park xvi
No walk in the woods today, so the woods came to the studio instead.
VJ Day
Pacific Spirit Park – 15.8.20 – acrylic on canvas
Painted today to honour the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day, which marks the end of the war in the Pacific and the Second World War. Lest we forget.
more from the trail
Pacific Spirit Park Sword Fern Trail, Variation II
back to the woods
spirit park 28.7.20
no words necessary
No words, just total awe in the Pacific Spirit Park today.
evolving
Work in progress today, i.e. evolving
Seemed like a good idea to look back 4 years ago today to my post evolved from nothing
Chapter 7 in Tony Smibert’s Painting Landscapes from your Imagination is all about composition.
“Whether drawn as a crisp outline or sketchy…the result is the same:
a landscape which you evolved from nothing; and only a beginning to the possibilities”
This was certainly the case today particularly using the “Three Line Sketch”, which Tony describes as his “secret weapon…the ultimate planning tool for watercolour.”
