Featuring new paintings fresh from the easel, exhibition news and other stuff from Peter Barker RSMA
Sunday, 19 July 2020
The Nene from Wansford Bridge
Oil on board 12 x 17 inches.
Wansford Bridge near Peterborough was built in 1577, is a listed building and consists of 12 arches. Only one car can pass at any time and there are several triangular pedestrian passes along it, from one of which I took this view. I started painting this very lossely, then tightened up as the painting went on, reverting to my tried and tested methos of painting trees, which works for me
Early Morning Light, Portree
Pastel on Pastelmat, 19 x 27 inches.
Another possible entry
for the RSMA exhibition. I just felt Pastel was a good medium for this
subject, and so it proved. I just love trying to capture that intense
glare on water and surrounds when looking straight into the sun. Perhaps
the most enjoyable passage of this painting was the hill backdrop on
the left, directly above the pure, reflected sunlight on the water. So
much subtle colour and diffusion there - scrummy! And if you paint the
sky the same, intense white, like a photo often captures, the effect is
lost - only the sun itself is that light, so that was reserved for the
reflection on the water.
English Longhorn
Pastel on Pastelmat, 19 x 27 inches.
This Pastel painting started out as a demo sometime last year. I had forgotten about it, and found it when I was getting a board out to paint a large marine Pastel, so have now finished it off. I do enjoy doing the occasional animal study, and I find Pastel a lovely medium for the job - it lends itself to painting fur, particularly.
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