Showing posts with label St. Mark's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Mark's. Show all posts

Monday, 16 July 2012

St. Mark's Again

I'm still playing around with ways of making images that are looser than I used to and this weekend returned to a subject that I've looked at before. My sketchbook from Venice is a continuing source of inspiration for more paintings and this effort is a development of a piece I posted here some weeks ago.



St. Mark's Basilica - Watercolour on Rough paper 16" x 12"

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Loosening Up

Regular readers will have picked up on the difficulty I have in loosening up my images so today's post is a recent attempt to attack a subject without tightening up. Some of you will also recall that I've been looking at the work of artists like Alvaro Castagnet and Jean Haines recently. They both have admirable loose styles which are very different from one another but both very impressive and attractive.

The subject I chose for this study was based on my recent sketches produced in Venice. A familiar view at the face of St. Mark's Basilica. a very ornate piece of architecture. There is so much detail that it would be a very lengthy task indeed to try and get a realistic representation. It became difficult to resist the temptation to put in more detail so I took that as a hint that I should stop work. 


St. Mark's - Watercolour on Not paper 12" x 9 "