" A Quick Surf Before Lunch"

A surf in the sun before lunch, what a great way to work up an appetite. I caught this guy striding back across the beach with a purpose on this hot day
on Woolacombe Beach. Framed 12 x 9 inches available here.

Have a good day!

"Downrail dom" watercolour surfers

Aching arms, salt baked skin....yep, "Downrail Dom" just checked in. Watercolour 12 x 9 inches. Framed.

£120 Sold.

BigSplashySlider -watercolour surfer

After the fun I've had painting this series on a 12 x 9 inch size, I felt the urge to paint them bigger and see what came out using bigger mop brushes. This is the first of  them on a 20 x 16 inches watercolour pad. I'm excited to go even larger with them, using the bigger brushes made for looser more spontaneous washes and strokes, then using the same brush held right on the tip of the handle in a vertical position for the detailed parts made for a really pleasing painting experience. I hope you like it? Now I have to go and find some bigger sheets of watercolour paper.

Have a great day!

"BigSplashySlider" 20 x 16 inches £295.Sold

Splashy Sunday Slider- watercolour surfer

 

Our old friend the wind returned to groom us with it's presence today, whilst the huge surf looked spectacular with it's exaggerated rooster trails of spray, it was a day for studio painting. I thought I'd try a Splashy Slider on the Hahnemule panoramic watercolour paper. What do you think, does the extended width benefit the composition?

"Splashy Sunday Slider #4 50 x 20 cms.

£145 Sold!

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The sun's come out! "SplashySlider #2" watercolour

Well these new style "SplashySliders" are starting to have a strange voodoo thing going on. It was cloudy and raining when I started painting this one , then halfway through, the sun came out and now it's wall to wall blue skies! Maybe I should keep on painting these, what do you think? Maybe if I paint enough of them, it might go offshore and glassy too!
"SplashySlider #2" 12 x 9 framed.

£120

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"Splashy Slider" -is it time yet?

 

With the sun out and the sea looking a better shade of blue, I start thinking of warmer days and splashy ways! Trying a something a little bit different.
"Splashy Slider No.1" watercolour 12 x 9 inches.

£120 Framed.Sold.

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Painters out on the Coast

Today marks the start of something exciting. Over the past month I have been contacting surfing artists/ creatives in the North Devon area , with the aim of getting us together to go outdoors and paint as a group.

So, eleven of us will be heading out today to paint for three days. Hopefully, producing enough work to sustain an exhibition, and generate enough interest to run regular painting trips , several times a year.



The first outing is to Lynmouth on the North Coast, a stunning place described by ;

 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter.1727-1788, who honeymooned there with his bride Margaret Burr, as "the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast".

So keep an eye out next week for postings showing some of the results of this exciting first trip.