Last few months, a round up. Wickhambreaux cottages.

Well, I have epically failed to keep up to date with the blog! I have made painting notes as I've gone along , so I can add my pictures from the missing months in :D

January 10th

I painted from a photo, some old thatched roof cottages in Wickhambreaux. These can't be painted from this angle since you'd be swiftly run over.  The first day I got as far as the initial drawing in on the burnt sienna oil primed board.

The painting was finished the next day, 10x12 inches. The sky seems to lose some of the colour in the photographs here.

Wickhambreaux back in the summer.

I haven't managed to paint much still through dark December, but I hadn't realised it had been quite so long since the last post !

  One area near to me has has all the elements of traditional English countryside, is around the River Stour in East Kent. A footpath on the out-skirts of Wickhambreaux has streams, weirs, cattle, towering trees and swans.

  Again there was a burnt sienna under painting, this being as far as I got day one.

This is the final work, with swan.