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Late Afternoon Denbighshire (watercolor 17 x 23) available
We are just back from a narrowboating trip on the Llangollen Canal in North Wales. Paradoxically, we spent much of our week’s boat rental walking on dry land both along the canal and into the countryside. This particular walk was along part of the Offa’s Dyke Path just a few miles west of Chirk Marina. The typical slate farmhouse in the mid-ground was visible for most of our late afternoon walk. Prints are available here.
Spring Flood (12 x 16 watercolor) $200.00
Driving the countryside around Salem, I’ve been admiring the flooded fields. At first I was only looking as I drove places I needed to go. Then I began taking the back roads just to more of them. Finally, I began driving just to see them.
This particular field is northwest of us out toward Silverton. I loved the silvery blue reflection of the sky 0n the water and the way the furrows pointed to the horizon. I took several high horizon photos to emphasize the retreating furrows, but in my reference photos the sky was flat pale gray and uninteresting so I added the cloud where furrows meet in the distance. I also removed a a railroad trestle that ran across the back of the field because it created a solid black line just where I wanted everything to fade.
Painted with cobalt blue, cerulean blue, burnt sienna and new gamge.
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