ARTSITECAROLYN PAINTING BLOG TRIPS BY CAROLYN LAMB - ARTSITECAROLYN

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".

Ashton COurt and Shirehampton park

6/9/2021

Magnolia Trees at Ashton Court. C.Lamb. Watercolour . 12th May 21

Roe deer at Crabtree slip. 29 May 21. I was doing a quick sketch of the River Avon from Shirehampton Park when I was amazed to see a deer run into the clearing.

Challenge 61: Still life of lost items, 62 : Portrait of Olivia

6/9/2021

Lost painting at the roadside. Pitt pen. 19 May 21. In 2018 I left my painting of the pool at Serridge House on the car roof by accident so it was lost somewhere between Coalpit Heath and the M 32. I'm still thinking over challenge 60 -In the gallery

Challenge 62 : Portrait of Olivia. Acrylic 22nd May 21. This one hour sketch was done from the model live on Zoom.

Challenge 59: Black PriMing

5/13/2021

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

I haven't been to Pembrokeshire for many years, but I used to visit a friend at Southerndown so I used an old sketch of the wonderful cliffs of the Glamorgan Heritage Coastline for my inspiration.

TOwards NAsh point from Dunraven, Glamorgan. 2007. Watercolour.

Ammendment to challenges.... I missed out no 32 : Card competition !

5/13/2021

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.

Challenge 57: Something to do with LEtters or Post

5/13/2021

Looking for the post box from Old Sneed Park . C. Lamb 27 April 2021. Oil. 9x12" or 229mm x 305mm.

Findhorn Sunset at INside Out exhibition 17-29 May 21

5/13/2021

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.

Limited Palette CHeddar GOrge

5/1/2021

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.

Challenge 55: Charcoal with the wrong hand , 56: Limited palette

5/1/2021

Left hand garden. C Lamb. April 21. Wax crayons. This challenge was to draw with the wrong hand using charcoal or other blacks.

Bursting buds. C Lamb. Oil April 2021. This challenge was to paint vegetation using a limited 5 colour palette of Black or Paynes grey, blue, yellow, (but not mixing blue and yellow), burnt siena or red, white.

CHallenge 54: Big Skys

4/18/2021

Garden Clouds. C. Lamb. 6th April 2021. Oil paint. After the Art club demo/ paint-along the previous week we were given the subject of Clouds for Challenge 54. Weather had gone too cold to sit out so did this through the window. I use Artisan Oil normally as it is water miscible so uses water to clean up not solvent, but for these I was using tradition Artist Oils so I used Seymour Coco-Bello paint diluent which is low odour.

Clouds. C.Lamb. Oil. 27th March 2021. This is my painting from a demo on Clouds by Bristol Landscape artist Tom Hughes. So great to have an artist who pays attention to clouds. See more of his excellent work on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tomhughespaintings/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/hughespaintings Instagram - www.instagram.com/tomhughespainting

Battery Point and the Severn from Portishead . C. Lamb . Watercolour. 31st March 2021. Trying to use white wax crayon to draw pale clouds rather than masking fluid but hard to see what you did so they are a bit schematic and often in the wrong place. Still it was an enjoyable sunny day and warm in the shelter of a hedge.

Challenge 52 Scottish colourists and 53: Fashion in your youth.

4/18/2021

View from Langamull beach, Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides. C. Lamb. Acrylic 2009. Painted this sketch on holiday on Mull in 2009 using a set of Winsor and Newton Finity acrylics. These use different pigments than my normal choice so the colours are brighter, or perhaps it was the marvelous light.

Student digs , 71 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh. C. Lamb. Watercolour. I didn't do any new work for these two challenges but dug out some old work that fitted the subject.

The Scottish Colourists are well known to us Scots but possibly less so in England. They were a group of Scottish painters active in the early 20th C who spent some time studying in France and were influenced by bold use of colour and free brushwork. They are Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter and John Duncan Fergusson. National Galleries of Scotland had a recent series of exhibitions of their works in 2012-13-14 which I was able to visit. Samuel Peploe's son Denis was a tutor at Edinburgh College of Art, but his only advice to me was to not paint with black lines.

Challenge 51: Childhood toys

4/18/2021

Panda . Possibly a Merrythought panda from the 1950's and in very good condition as she spent most of her time in a cupboard.

Panda up the Christmas tree with two glove puppets (racoon and white cat) and a ginger seated cat.

Challenge 49 A Historical event and 50 Last time Abroad

4/15/2021

Horseguards flags, September 14th 2014. C.Lamb. Watercolour. For my historic image I reused this watercolour I did the week of the Scottish Independance referendom (Sept 18th 2014). I realised it might be the last time I might see the Scottish Saltire (St Andrews cross) and Union Jack flying together over Horseguards. But they voted to remain by 55% (45% to leave).

Last TIme Abroad : Dinner at St Julien de Crempse, Bergerac. Watercolour. Composite from photos of our Bergerac painting holiday in September 2019.

Challenge 48: On the Farm

3/26/2021

Goat. C. Lamb Feb 2020. One of several pages of preparatory sketches of goats at Windmill Hill City Farm I did in 2020 for a friends Birthday card. These are Anglo Nubian/Boer crossbreeds.

Elm tree Farm goats. C.Lamb 24 Feb 2021. This challenge was On the Farm. In Photoshop I amalgamated my ink sketch of Elm tree farm with 3 goats from my Windmill Hill sketches.