Recent content by Arnie

Beautiful painting Donna. Love the mood and pallet, with the touch of warmth here and there. Good depth and depiction of fore ground snow. (y)

Thanks Ayin. Ah! I've got the 30x20 canvas out and painted the ground. Should have started the painting today - I need to get started and focus/ take the plunge, splash paint on and face the challenge and see how it develops from my watercolour.

Thanks Donna. I prefer to build water up with transparent layers. For this one I started with a sandy base and added some dark shadow, and then streaked in some light blue/violet waves. When this was dry the shadow wasn't dark enough so I over painted it with darker violet and streaked in some...

Thanks Jo - much appreciated. The bright sun was creating a hard shadow in my ref pictures, so i chose to soften them to make them less distracting.

I started this last year, but had to leave it till this afternoon to finish off. Still needs a signature so may tweak it later. This one started off in landscape format with more people, but took the plunge and turned it round to focus on the people. The hottest day of the year on Bournemouth...

Thanks Grapes - appreciated. As you say its all opinion, and all opinions are true. I'm still verring to the crop in my last post.

A crop just from top as @Donna T suggested. No need to move swan as its well positioned. Will get the canvas primed asap, but have to finish of a painting from last year first. Thanks arnie.

Thanks snoball and Jo. I will do another crop, perhaps moving the swan slightly, and repost. In my early days of painting I placed the Centre of Interest directly on the sweet spot, but I'm a lot more relaxed about that now.

Thank you for your informative replies. I also liked the S line and was wary of losing it, and the option of adding some curving branches there dipping into the water, but was wanting to retain the upper branches on the trees on right. Think the clincher for me was trees are already corpped. I...

Original Uncropped Cropped to 30x20 I thought I’d start 2025 doing a big oil painting of this watercolour which would scale up to 24x18. However I have a larger 30x20 canvas which I could crop it to (perhaps moving the swan slightly). Was wondering which version was preferred, Original...

Looks like a street party with music and dancing, and lots of drinking. Lots of fun.

I started with the bottom left corner and largely imagined the rest. The hen intrigued - a quick google later revealed its meaning. Thanks arnie

2nd of 3 oils I did in 24. The composition is a pastiche of garden I visited in June. I cut thru all the overgrown shrubbery to show a way to the building and bridge, and cleaned up the lake. Wanted the mood to be peace and contentment, as referenced by the hen on a drum. Lots of impasto knife...

thanks Ayin :)

Thanks John and Grapes.:)