Saturday 31 March 2012

Day 3 Light & Colour 31/March/2012

 Always after a period of sunny and warm weather the come down of a dreary grey morning is inevitable...and so this is the way today began, however grey skies soon gave way to sunshine but cool air meant that coats and hats were on again.



"Light is not a thing that can be reproduced, but something that must be depicted using colour"...so said the great Paul Cezanne, had he lived in Scotland I think his palette would of been somewhat altered for a large part of every month!!


 A walk through the woods ........


 Keeping in mind Cezanne's thoughts on the depiction of light I took some shots(this time from a different location) of Ruberslaw....weak sunlight and a slight haze reducing it's usual distinct green/blue to a pale blue/grey colour in the distance.

Nothing like the watercolour I produced earlier this month!  Sometimes  I can identify and so admire Cezanne's apparent disregard for the weather.....

Friday 30 March 2012

Day 2 Cycling and Art 30/ March/2012


Another beautiful day, especially and unusually for March. Much like yesterday but with a noticeably cooler breeze.
Good weather like we have been having is a major distraction for me. Instead of working on this
work in progress
I was out doing this

But I did see this and many more things besides....


When I was an art student ( a very long time ago now!!) I could never reconcile being active in the sense of what some people  might call sporty with being a so called artist. Laughable I  know and I certainly don't have those concerns now. Artists who cycle and cyclists who make art, there are many for sure. Maurice de Vlaminck was one,always a favourite of mine so I was delighted to find out that he was a serious cyclist before turning to art full time!
Many of his paintings depict roads within a landscape leading through villages, I imagine him cycling and always in decent weather....

Thursday 29 March 2012

Day 1

29/March/2012

Back Bowden Doors, Northumberland. Lovely sunshine 17 degrees c on leaving the car, but much warmer later on.
While John bouldered, I  sat  and dabbled for an hour or so.
 In bright sunlight your eyes take time to adjust, maybe 10 mins or so. At first everything seems quite simple but then after a while the subtleties of colour  come into play within the shadow and light ...quite extraordinary!

Hockney is correct ...the more you look the more you see.