Yesterday I went into the park to meet someone and with the intention of doing some drawing but as I forget to take my pencils, ( senior moment). I had to content myself with looking and snapping. I took a fresh shot of the teasels I showed in the last post. I had a lovely ciabatta…
Late Summer and early Autunm brings out a tangle of seed heads in the wild areas of the parK which I find hard to resist. I take reference photos but I like to draw too as this keeps the memory much more powerfully than if I just snapped the shot. Others may not be able…
Today was so sunny that I decided to venture into the Park to do some sketching. I was delighted to see this wonderful wildflower meadow.
Last year this area was a dry pond except during the awful storms during the first half of 2014. The water drained away through holes in the membrane and left a desert. Now to my delight, a new smaller pond and gravel garden has been created in the area.
Over the last two years and especially this last few months, much of my time has been dedicated to helping to run a small gallery in Bognor Regis. I am still artist for Hotham Park which is what this blog is really about. The little gallery is now closed, which is sad but the upside…
Number 3 of my thistle paintings, stage 1. It’s great to work on several painting together one can get a real creative flow going, stopping and starting can be so counter productive.
Yesterday I posted the first stage of the number 1 of a triplet of paintings inspired by thistles. I have 2 in progress now, here is progress on the first and stage one of the second,
I decided to abandon the last painting I posted on my blog and covered it with blue tinted primer to be reborn as something else. It will form part of a trio of works inspired by a patch of thistles in Hotham Park.Here is the first stage of one of them.
My walk in the park exhibition is now open and if you live near Bognor Regis why not pop in and have a look.
What did Burns say about plans going astray? My planned calm day turned into an unexpected trip to Chichester to fetch prints which were supposed to be delivered yesterday and a flat tyre on the way home. In spite of all that I managed to finish this painting.
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