New Listings...

Added to my Etsy Shop today....

IN THE DOCK....aceo (Art Cards Editions and Originals) £7.50 incl. postage worldwide

THE SAIL BOAT ....aceo £7.50 incl. postage worldwide

www.studiohydeart.etsy.com

In our garden this week

~ Have a lovely weekend ~

Time for some sketching

On a lovely walk at Heddon's Mouth last week and it gave me a great opportunity to sketch.

First though, this is the location:    HEDDON VALLEY (when you have opened the link, scroll down for more information about the place).


Sketching this bridge was easy, there was a very useful bench nearby where I set up my sketching kit...

Further along the track the path leads to the sea.  I was more interested in the cliffs, they looked very majestic in the late afternoon sun.

Time to stop at the pub for a cider and some more sketching...lovely

 

New work on my Etsy shop

I'm sure some of you will have already seen these new Listings on my Shop:

StudioHydeArt Etsy

I have added them to Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook and just about where ever out there, but apparently they do say use Social media....ha, think I have this worked out and then I realised I should add them here too.  By the way, I must admit that I have loved painting each and everyone of them, they all tell a story for me.

These are all Miniature paintings known as ACEO's (Art Cards Editions & Originals)
Size: 3.5 x 2.5 inches (8.89 x 6.35cm)

Very Collectible because of their size, Originality and can be framed up in groups or singly. 

so check out my shop here

Yay...I've got a Craig Young palette

In case you haven't heard of them, here's a link to 

Craig Young Palettes - Watercolor Paint Box Company

I've been on the waiting list for this palette for over a year and finally I have one - they're Handmade to your specific requirements.   Can't tell you how thrilled I am with it.

and yes, it is already messy - and it's been cleaned up too!!

They are expensive, but this was a very special gift retrospectively from my late in-laws.  I know they would have approved of me having this, they were great supporters of my artwork over the years.

(thanks mum and dad)

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Day Four - Art at Budleigh Salterton

DAY 4 - BUDLEIGH SLATERTON - FINAL DAY

 

The first thing to do was to have a walk around
and choose where to paint.

We were parked at the end of the seafront near the cliffs,
so that became my painting view...

Again I started with Thumbnail sketches 

 

thumbnail sketches help so much

I was considering this view,  perhaps making more of the sky.  The only thing was I would have to change the horizon line. Never do a painting that separates the view half way down the paper....

This would make a better painting...

the horizon line is lower and not in the middle of the picture

although I could have chosen to have the horizon higher

One thing about painting en plein air, especially where 'tide' is concerned -
You have to remember that the view will 'change'

as it did here, when the tide came in

Not only did I do some thumbnail sketches,
I also did a quick painting-sketch to warm up my paints ;)

and finally decided on this scene

step 1

waited for paint to dry before 

step 2

Final painting....

By the time I got to this stage, it started to rain,

so we returned to Ray's Studio for a cuppa, 

added some more paint to our work

and then displayed the paintings and talked through our work

Oh, and Ray's dog ended up being sketched by me...

I sneaked this sketch, so nobody saw this on the day

Had a great time on this 4 day Art Course

Many thanks to Ray Balkwill

this was a very inspirational en plein air experience.