Oil Painting Al Fresco

Here are my first few oil paintings on location..

Cheddar Gorge

Went to Cheddar Gorge the other day. It was a baking hot day so I found a nice shady patch under a tree after having scrambled up the side of the gorge. Here's what I did,

Winkworth Arboretum

Rome

I've just come back from a few days in Rome. I tried to do as much painting as I could in between walking all across Rome seeing the various sights. It was a pretty knackering few days!
Here are a couple of my more successful efforts from painting. I was using gouache again. I'm quite pleased with the results, although I'm using more opaque paint than I would like. I like the effects you get when you layer up thin washes and I'm losing that at the moment.








On one of the days I took my pastels out.. and instantly regretted it! I really struggled with them. I think this was partly due to the subject matter. I was finding doing architecture pretty tricky with them as it's hard to get clean edges. I think I'll avoid man made structures until I'm a little more practiced with them!

New toys

I got some new pastels last week. It's quite exciting! It's funny though, no matter how many different colours I have, it seems I never have the right ones! But I realised that, that's because I always get carried away trying to record exactly what's in front of me. So today I tried to focus less on the exact colours and more on just getting the feeling of the lighting right. It turned out much better for it. I must remember that in future!

Rainy Day

As it was raining last weekend I opted for painting the view from my window!

White, with an accent of white

I went shopping for some new tennis trainers recently. I came home very disappointed.

Sometimes it sucks being a girl