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Cheating Art...

27/4/2016

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"Evening Light"
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
Do you know who said that? All will be revealed.
I am very fortunate to live where I do,with just a ten minute drive to the beach. We have wonderful beaches here on the east coast, and the ones around Bridlington are among the best.
This is a view towards the town from the beach where Dane's Dyke meets the sea. I remember the first time I visited this wonderful beach at low tide and just how inspired I was (and still am) by the amazing vista. This is painted in  tea time light which makes it a crepuscular painting (go on - look it up).
One of the chief joys of being a painter as opposed to a photographer is that we can change things at will to improve composition, tone or even colour to make our painting more beautiful. For example - the chief attraction here is the light all pointing to and centered upon the distinctive Bridlington skyline but ..was the scene just like this? Of course not. These days anyone can capture exactitude with the modern wonders of digital photography, so the painter must do something more than faithfully reproduce a scene..he must enhance it by putting 'feeling' into it. Every painting contains something of the painter and this is what makes it special and unique. This also explains why no painter ever paints the same scene in the same way as, of course, we are all different.
So should we cheat for the sake of beauty...of course!

And the author of the above quote...David Hockney one time Bridlington's most famous resident.
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Traditional English Landscape Painting - step by step

6/4/2016

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I have been doing a series of paintings to exhibit during my forthcoming stint as artist in residence at Burton Agnes Hall from 11th - 20th April. The paintings have been done in the very traditional manner of English landscape painters. The doyen of English landscape painters is surely John Constable and it is inevitable that his influence has shone through in my work. In effect I took the Yorkshire Wolds to Constable so to speak. For the last one I thought it would be nice to bring Constable to the Wolds if you get my meaning and what could be more iconic ‘Constable’ than a haywain? So here is the famous agricultural wagon transposed to a part of the Wolds Way overlooking Setterington. Of course farmers must have used haywains like this or very similar back in the days of horse drawn transport so it is not out of place. From the start I had a very clear vision of what I wanted.......

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..... here is the initial drawing. As usual it is a very loose sketch apart from the haywain where I took a fair bit of time and trouble to get it right.
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The sky always sets the feel of the painting. It's after a heavy shower so plenty of cumulus clouds in the sky.....
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​...soon the characteristic landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds begins to appear.
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​We have a haywain!
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This is the final colour wash and all that needs to be done is to add the detail on the trees, foreground and muddy track leading to the finished painting:
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"After Rain on the Wolds Way"
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