Acquarelle,

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Leonardo da Vinci

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

I’m not about to argue with Leonardo, but with watercolours, the opposite is kind of appropriate, but only because you get your lighter tones by leaving the paper untouched.

Lamma Island is about 30 minutes away from Hong Kong itself, and is a bit of a holiday or ‘day out’ type of place. It’s always a good day trip, and i have done a number of paintings here.

This one captures the mood of the day I think.

 

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Oil on canvas board, 22 x 33 cm’s

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Salvador Dalí

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.”
― Salvador Dalí

This quote from Dali has absolutely nothing to do with the painting, but you gotta love the guy!

Anyway, we finally got some lovely sunshine here yesterday, so I headed up the road a bit and spent a few hours on this one, near Lac de Miquelou just outside Grauhlet.

It was the Mayday holiday here, and a number of locals were fishing nearby. They didn’t seem to be catching a lot – probably just an excuse to get out in the sunshine.

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Acquarelle on paper, 20 x 30 cm

Private Collection, Switzerland

‘Watercolor, with all its subtle color and value gradations and its many welcome surprises, is the perfect medium for capturing mood. (Ray Hendershot) ‘

This is another of the French watercolours done recently near Chauffe.

It was an exceptionally windy and cold day, and I hunkered just outside the car out of the wind and sporadic rain.

While I was painting, a farmer stopped his truck and walked back to me and explained that that was his parents property, and that I was painting on his.

He didn’t seem to mind.

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