Click on the image for the full picture.  I thought it would be good to show a 40x50cm mixed media on canvas painting that I painted last week.

Inspired by one of the drawings I included in my last post it uses many forms described by the lines in the drawing.  The colour scheme is dominated by a deep dark red, that I’ve exaggerated by darkening, and that wet bracken in autumn displays.  Its not officially autumn yet but I don’t know how it is in other parts of the country but in the far south west we seem to be seasonally ahead of ourselves.  Landscape painting can be dominated by green and I love the idea of using the bracken colour to contrast the greens with.

I’ve cheated a bit by moving some local buildings to the far right middle ground, thereby replacing the barn in the original drawing. They belong about a quarter of a mile to the right, up the valley, but I needed the cool blue/grey lines to articulate the dark mass of the brackened hill and echo the sky and sea hues.  I don’t worry too much about topographical accuracy.  We have maps and photographs for that. To have missed them out form this view would have lessened my sense of the character of the place.  A place I’m very familiar with, as I see it every day when I walk through the field behind my studio..