Painting like Turner – new series: part 6a

So now I stopped this painting at an interesting point… I had planned to (at the most) add one or two horses but not more, then decided to leave it at that for the moment. I do think I´ll paint it again at least once in a slightly different version. In my opinion, the composition works well without any horses & hounds. The view is so lovely and I wish I could have been there or to find something similar enchanting in nowaday Britain.

As a reminder – this is the wonderful oil painting by Turner, my reference.

I am content with the outcome of my first tryout. Next time I will use another type of paper.

I also completed another version of one of my favourite paintings by Turner, the view from Richmond Hill. In my version I left out the people just like in the other one and think – again – the composition works well without them. I enjoy especially painting the skies and edging as closely as I can towards his masterful mixture of glorious yellowish-vanilla-lightgreyish-blue.

This is his fabulous Original, pictured in the book “How to paint like Turner” (Tate Publication):

Painting like Turner – new (well not so new anymore) series: Part 6

So this is a wonderfully atmospheric oil painting by Master Turner from 1812, size 119×180,6 cm “Raby Castle, Residence of the Earl of Darlington” I was drawn to, to use it as a reference for honing my skills & dreaming of some glorious British landscape I´d love to explore.

I really love the moody cloudy sky and the vast vast views on rolling hills in the distance with misty foggy edges, and the vivid colours of the compelling countryside, lush trees and dashing riders.

So these following pictures show some work in progress as I am not finished yet – adding layer on layer, letting the stormy weather we have lead me into the right “artistic sphere” for this scenery. Interesting that he painted this in oil as for me it looks quite watercolourish, one of the reasons I was attracted to it. And today I also raised my studio desk up to a standing desk position, I am sure this will enhance my brush momentum favorably 🙂

To be continued…

It reminds me of two small paintings I made some years ago in my sketchbook, both picturing Scotland:

Painting like Turner – new series. Part 2

First of all: HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all 🙂

So my painting tryouts continue…

Working with my new book “How to paint like Turner”, I painted several skies with dramatic effects of the sun with some serious reddish clouds gatering around the orb. Turner very often used some heavy weight blue paper, especially for his moonlit scenes but also for some of those with the sun as the main subject. The authors suggest trying out some sturdy pastel paper or to wash a heavy weight watercolour paper with blue before using it as Turner did, as it seems paper like he used is hard to come by…there is of course coloured watercolour paper but usually not as heavy weight tu endure all that rough handling with the brushes, the scatchting and the washing down paints over and over again.

So for the second painting, I took a very rough and heavy weight sheet of watercolour paper and applied a blue wash … with a medium-satisfactory result. I will look for some pastel paper to see if that can be put to better use for some of the exercises. Again, I enjoyed these a lot and have been really glued to my studio space the last days, stoked and inspired.

Based on Turner´s painting “The scarlet sunset”

Autumnal Vibes

So after some months of not painting (or whittling or doing anything else creative), this is a new quick watercolour painting showing an area where I used to live for some time. I remember that golden late summer / early autumn well, took many many photos and used quite a few as reference pics for paitings. This went quite well without all that much thinking and prepping, I used quite a bit of masking fluid for the unruly foliage. Done in my sketchbook format a4 on Hahnemühle paper.

Coastline views

This was an experiment: painting on canvas with watercolours. I read somewhere that one can use a special primer to do just that, and thought it might be interesting to try this out for a change. I have a few unused canvasses and do not feel like painting on them with acryllic colours or using them for collages or such…. It worked out all right, I like that one can see the texture of the canvas and enjoyed the colour palette. The painting shows the Kaikoura coastal walkway (New Zealand). The area is well known for whale watching, which I did not do – I sticked to the mighty albatrosses. I have some fond memories of that place.

Kaikoura, NZ – look on the coastal walkway

Beautiful Skye

So this finally is a new little drawing/painting in my sketchbook. It´s been a while, I moved house in the beginning of december which was very stressful, and I am glad I found the grit to work on this beautiful landscape of the Isle of Skye. I am glad I got this done, times are really stressful with the covid-lockdown-situation which puts a strain on everyone. And I feel I only have the energy for the bare essentials, and nothing left to do some nice uplifting creative things. But I just returned from a pleasant snowy walk and the world seems a bit lighter now.

The Ref.photo is from pixabay.

The painting is done with watercolor and watercolor-pencils, and a hint of ink.

Greetings from Scotland, the beauty. Watercolour & ink for my wee sketchbook.

So this is another sketch I enjoyed making, and I soo love to see pictures of the beautiful Scotland. This was quite tricky to get the mist right, but really rewarding. The reference pic ist from pixabay.

Moorish sketch – heather and birches

This is a new little quick sketch in watercolour and ink. The area is near where I live, a quite extensive moorish foresty landscape which I really like. I used to go for walkies there and enjoyed it a lot.

 

 

this is the reference photo