ARTSITECAROLYN - ARTSITECAROLYN PAINTING BLOG TRIPS BY CAROLYN LAMB

Tim's Collection Centre

8/2/2018

Garden House with Sunflowers. Carolyn Lamb. 30th & 31st July 2018. 12" x 12". Oil. Flowers, vegetables and raspberries flank the path to the summerhouse Tim built. He calls it the collection centre as it stores hundreds of books and there is also a small studio on the left side. Hazel always grows an abundance of flowers so there is never a shortage of interesting subjects in their garden.

Preparing for the Clifton Arts 109th Annual Open

7/27/2018

Here are the 4 oils I am entering for the Clifton Arts Club Open exhibition. One big Cornish scene painted from Brisons Veor in 2016 and 3 of my more normal size painted last year.

Mini GARden

7/9/2018

Mini Garden, Holt Farm, Blagdon. Carolyn Lamb 29 June & 6th July 2018. Hiding under the hedge from the heat for 2 sessions to complete this oil painting of the lovely garden in a mini car.

THe one that Flew away

7/7/2018

The Pool, Serridge House, Coalpit Heath. Carolyn Lamb. Oil. 7th July 2018. Painted today on an art club trip but lost on the way home as I left it on the roof of the car! I did retrace my route but it flew off somewhere on a lane between Coal Pit Heath, the rIng road or on the M 32 ! At least I still have the photo I took before packing to leave.

Whitchurch BEehives

7/6/2018

Whitewood Lodge Beehives. Carolyn Lamb. 30 June 2018 Oil. Painting with the Arts club on Saturday near Whitchurch.

Severn Beach and New Passage

7/5/2018

Second Severn Crossing from Severn Beach. C Lamb. Oil. June 27th 2018. Lovely rock and mud when the tide is out. It almost looks as if you could walk across to Wales.

Chepstow Bridge from New Passage. C Lamb . Oil. 3 July 2018. While the warm weather keeps up its a good time for painting by the seaside. I last painted here in 2016.

BS9 Art Trail 2018

6/22/2018

Six of my oils on show on the BS9 Art trail: Wick Quarry, Rhododendron path, Blagdon lake, Elberton Pine, Seamills Tide Out, Blossom on Old Sneed Road, The Brisons at Cape Cornwall and Fisher Huts at Cape Cornwall-

Here I am with all the pictures I showed on this years BS9 Art Trail

Small is beautiful

6/8/2018

May 2018

No prizes for guessing which one is mine from this outing with friends to paint at Priory Wood at Portbury, North Somerset. I think years of working as a painting conservator with small brushes on small Old Master paintings has influenced me. Plus you can fit lots of small paintings into your home.

Cercis and spurge

6/4/2018

Cercis and Spurge, Holt Farm May 2018. Carolyn Lamb . Oil.

Lots of puzzling from garden visitors to Holt farm about this pink flowering tree. What was it?. Forest pansy ? The Judas tree, Cercis? All correct and beautiful to paint. In the background is the white flowers of the crab apple walkway, which I painted twice in the two previous weeks but now there is green spurge and allium pompoms and the pink flowering tree.

Camassia field

5/13/2018

Camassia field with Crab Apple blossom. Carolyn Lamb. Oil. 203mm x 203mm . 4th & 11th May 2018. I have been waiting for the apple blossom walkway. When I started this last Friday only the field of blue camassia was out. But fortunately by this week it had blossomed so I could complete my painting.

Blossom walk with Camassia. Carolyn Lamb. Oil. 203x203mm. 10th & 11th May 2018.

Not only does weather vary daily for my on site work but plants may not be out or have gone over by my next visit. The Yeo Valley Organic garden at Holt Farm is only open on Thursdays and Fridays so a lot can change in a week. This week the crab apple blossom was in full flower so I was able to paint another oil at the field edge.

Aberdeen BEach again

5/10/2018

Aberdeen Beach with windmills. Carolyn Lamb 28 April 2018. Watercolour over a double page.

Since my last visit to Aberdeen beach, offshore windmills have appeared in the distance. These may be the ones Donald Trump complained about spoiling the view from his Balmedie Beach golf course but they are less obtrusive than the numerous oil supply boats which also moor along the coast. I like both windmills and boats.

MORE spring flowers

5/3/2018

Fancy tulips and bluebells. Carolyn Lamb. 25th April 2018. watercolour. On Arches 300gsm hot pressed watercolour paper A6 for Dawn's birthday card

Cherry tree. Carolyn Lamb watercolour. 25th April 18 . Another A6 card. This cherry is just outside Fran's studio.

At Last -Lots of Blossom

4/21/2018

It has been a busy week looking for Cherry Blossom. After a miserable winter, warmth was forecast so at last time for painting outdoors. Started with the Suspension Bridge in oil on Monday. Trees are still leafing up so no blossom here. Found a sheltered spot so braved the cold for 4hrs.

On Tuesday I found this Cherry tree on Sea Mills Lane. Used oil pastel for the white blossom and watercolour and inktense blocks, all on 12 x 16" Arches cold pressed paper. A heatwave had been predicted but still only 12.C so standing in the street again dressed in coat, hat and gloves .

Wednesday was hot at last but I was painting indoors! Camellias again in watercolour in my JPP sketchbook (hot press paper 5 3/4" x 8 1/2")

Back on Thursday with my oils for the same view. Fortunately with shelter from a parasol as it was 24.c ! You could see the leaves growing by the hour.

On the way on Wednesay I had spotted this Cherry on Ambra Vale East so after the camelias I went on outdoors to bake in the sun for 2hrs to do this watercolour

Holt Farm Garden opened this week for the season. I knew there would be cherrys so Friday was a visit there to paint this oil. Still warm and sunny but next week back to 12.c.

Sunny DAy at Aberdeen Beach

4/12/2018

Aberdeen Beach. Carolyn Lamb. 9th April 2018. When visiting Scotland I always try to get down to the beach in Aberdeen. Today it was warm enough to sketch on the shore and include the moored oil supply boats and even an oil rig . To get it all in I'm sketching across a double page.

Life and Adam and Eve

4/2/2018

The Tree of Knowledge. Carolyn Lamb . March 2018. Inktense pencil.

Bit of a bombshell at the end-of-term Life class on Thursday when Will Stevens announced he was giving up running his Bristol Grammar School evening classes after about 20 years. So sad to lose this great and popular drawing opportunity but all the best to Will and Imogen. He will still be taking his teaching classes.
Coincidently the week before we had double poses which were just right for my 'Adam and Eve' project. The 15 minute pose of standing figures for The Tree of Knowledge. Should they, or shouldn't they take the apple? The marvelous knarled tree was sketched at the zoo - a Midland Hawthorn . The lions had gone indoors to shelter from cold and rain so I need another visit to add them to the seated figures for The Garden of Eden.

I am waiting for a dry day to go back to the zoo to sketch in the background for this life drawing.