ARTSITECAROLYN PAINTING BLOG TRIPS BY CAROLYN LAMB - ARTSITECAROLYN

These are a few of my favourite things: Four to new homes

6/27/2022

Two spots I paint at frequently are seen in these oils from May 2019: Down Cheddar Gorge, and Beehives and Camassia, at Holt Farm.

I also like painting old characterful trees such as this lovely sweet chestnut on Stoke Hill . I sat on the steps of the villege hall to paint this oil at Easter 2022.

Finally my favourite combination of rusty corrugated iron, falling down buildings, wildflowers and a mature tree, painted on holidays to find new painting subjects . Upper Tullochgrue Farm in the Cairngorms National Park .2019. Oil

BS9 Art Trail June 2022 at Stoke Lodge

6/26/2022

Here are the 37 works I exhibited on the BS9 Arts trail this June. I got the same hanging spot at Stoke Lodge again. It is a mix of oil paintings from the last couple of years

Bristol Zoo Last chance :Midland hawth0rn in MArch

5/11/2022

Spring watercolour of the Midland Hawthorn at Bristol Zoological Gardens which is closing in September after 186 years

2022 KESTRELS, GUITAR PLAYERS AND WOODS.

2/21/2022

Watercolour drawings of Sandy the Kestrel, Josh playing the guitar (pastel pencil) and the Stream in Baddocks Wood.

More 2021 Oils

2/21/2022

More 2021 oils From Top Left: No Entry Cheddar Gorge; Brockley Raspberry Rows: Algars Manor Treehouse; St Hughes , Charterhouse ; Wrington Gate; Kinloch Rannoch Pines .

LAst years paintings

2/5/2022

Porthpean Cliffs. C.Lamb. Sept 21 Oil. 8x8"

I don't make lists for everything but I log each years oil paintings in an old diary with size and date and a little image to try and roughly identify each but even I get the details wrong as Porthpean was actually painted on 29/30thSept not October.

Oops it's 2022. Art Inspired by Durer.

1/11/2022

Hare. Carolyn Lamb

Oops. I have been posting more on Instagram than here and now suddenly it's 2022.
To celebrate the current National Gallery London Credit Suisse Exhibition : Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist the weekly Clifton Arts challenge is to be inspired by Durer.

That reminded me of a Pigma micron pen drawing of a hare I did at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in 2019. So in honour of Durer's hare watercolour of 1502 (Albertina,Vienna) I have cut out the ringbinder, extended the background paper and added my monogram in Photoshop Elements for my 2022 challenge entry.

This is the original sketch book 4"x6". Hare 19 Dec 2019. C. Lamb.

Nash Point Lighthouse, Glamorgan, Wales

11/23/2021

Lighthouse, Nash Point, Glamorgan. C.Lamb. Sept 2021. Oil. 8x8". Painted on the return journey from Cenarth.

As the Clifton Arts Challenge for the week was Lighthouses, Stuart and I stopped at Nash point for a lovely sunny days painting while the others went shopping. I have never painted here before but many times further along the Glamorgan coastline at Monknash, Dunraven and Ogmore.

PAINTING AT CENARTH, WALES

11/23/2021

Cenarth Falls, C. Lamb. Sept 21 Oil. 8x8". On a trip to West Wales with painting buddies I sat under the bridge at Cenarth to avoid the rain for this view upstream at Cenarth Falls.

Llangrannog Beach. C.Lamb 2021. Oil. 8x8". Next we painted on the beach at Llangrannog.

Discerning Eye drawings

10/5/2021

In the Garden Of Eden .C. Lamb 2019. Inktense pencil (No water)

In the past nude studies would have been used for grand compositions. And Life drawing has been seen as essential training for artists. While a few current artists specialise in nudes as a subject ( e.g. Lucien Freud, Jenny Saville etc) the majority of life drawing stays unwanted in sketchbooks. I wanted to do something further with my life drawings than just filling up numerous sketchbooks to keep my drawing skills honed. The development of these drawings took place over a year starting with various life models and then plants and animals sketched at Bristol Zoo. The subject of Adam and Eve was suggested by my friend Tim. Both Eden and apple were shown for the first time on the 2021 BS9 Art trail.

Adam and Eve: Decisions. C.Lamb. 2019. Inktense pencil and water.

The Tree of Knowledge. C.Lamb 2019. Inktense pencil and water. The gnarled Midland Hawthorn at the Zoo was a perfect model for the tree of knowledge in all 3 sketches.

BS9 Art Trail 2021 Stoke Lodge

9/3/2021

And this is the final result - my space set up for tomorrows opening. We are open from 11-5pm on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th September 2021.

Car is packed with paintings and setting up gear for the trip to Stoke Lodge

This is my spot in Room 1. Eventually there will be 5 artists in this room and 65 altogether at the various trail venues.

More Scottish scenes

8/21/2021

Sheds, Hatton of Fintray. C.Lamb. June 2021. Watercolour.

C.Lamb.Oil . 8x8" Old Hatton of Fintray Kirk

Dunalister estate Oils

8/21/2021

Two oils from our Perthshire holiday near Kinloch Rannoch. A bit bigger than my usual size at 16"x12". Boats on Dunalister water looking towards Schiehallion, and Trees on the Dunalister estate.

Clifton Arts CLub 111th Open exhibition

7/28/2021

All four of my submissions have been selected for the 111 th Open Exhibition of Clifton Arts. Runs from 31st July to 15th August at the Undercroft, Victoria Methodist Church, Whiteladies Road, Bristol. Here framed are Shepherds Hut, Wrington, 2020, and Upper Tullochgrue Farm, Rothiemurchas, 2019. I usually like to leave my oils at least a year before framing and exhibiting so they have properly dried.

Also selected are Woodside Cottage, New Forest, 2019 and Sheep pen, Brockley Elm farm, 2020.

Polytunnels at Pencoed

6/15/2021

Hottest day of the year so far on Sunday and I was painting with fellow artist Rachel at Pencoed Growers near Bridgend. Sheltered by a hedge for this 16 x12" oil painting. We haven't painted here since 2013.

Pencoed Polytunnels. C Lamb Oil.

Here are the two older oil paintings -Dogwood at Pencoed Growers from March 2012. Oil. 8x8".

Water tank from the Polytunnels , Pencoed Growers 8th and 21st March 2013. I remember it was freezing. Oil. 8x8".