 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.
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 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.  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.
 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.  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.
 Towards Nash Point -The Glamorgan Heritage coastline. C.Lamb. Oil .5 May 21. 8x8". Welsh artist Huw Richards Evans gave us an interesting demo on Zoom of his technique painting on a black priming to start. This weeks challenge was to paint a Pembrokeshire seascape on a black priming. www.huwrichardsevans.com
 Autumn Clour, Sneed Lodge, Old Sneed Park. C. Lamb. 24 Oct 2020. Watercolour. 8x8". Making a list of all the challenges to decide which to enter into the exhibition I discovered I have missed out no 32 so subsequent challenges are wrongly numbered. That one was to enter a work into the Club card competition. I am painting the thatched cottage from the car on the opposite side of the road to the Postbox oil.  Looking for the post box from Old Sneed Park . C. Lamb 27 April 2021. Oil. 9x12" or 229mm x 305mm.  At last- The first exhibition taking place since last March. 50 of the club artists are exhibiting. You had to have done 3 or more challenges over the last 14 months to enter. I have done all but 3 of them.  Cheddar Gorge. Oil. 16th April 2021. 16" X 12"- Larger than normal. The first chance to go to my favourite place to paint was once stay at home restrictions were lifted on 12th April. It was going to be my limited palette vegetation painting but I couldn't get the lids off some of the requested colour tubes. Plus not much vegetation Although the sun shone it was a nippy wind so I did this from the car. |
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