Compared to July, August brings vivid bursts of additional colour to the garden’s palette:
15 August 2024
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30 January 2023
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Van Gogh and Colour
Following yesterday’s post about our visit to the Van Gogh experience, I wanted to return to the subject of his use of colour. In the first part of his career, he used a distinctly muddy palette, almost as if he … Continue reading
16 October 2022
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Autumn Colours 2022
There are some gorgeous colours outside this autumn? I wonder if the hot summer contributed to that. They looked even better today, with the quality of the light. Hopefully we’ll get some more of that this week – I ought … Continue reading
4 October 2022
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A Dash of Colour
Apropos of nothing, here is a wonderfully colourful video from the Slow Mo guys on YouTube: They say their work sometimes appears in music videos and I expect this one might make an appearance before too long.
14 August 2022
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Back Garden – August 2022
Given the lack of rain recently, the back garden is still looking remarkably green. Actually it looks greener than the equivalent picture taken from last month although that was taken in the heat of one of the hottest days of … Continue reading
6 March 2022
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Something to hear with your eyes
Today’s all-age service at church was another one in our “sensing God” series. This week’s theme was “hearing” so, on top of my cyan all-age team t-shirt, I wore my loudest orange shirt (a lovely patterned material from Ghana). I’m … Continue reading
28 August 2020
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Chutney (to be)
This colourful composition is the chutney I cooked up yesterday – curried apple, peach and walnut. By the time it was done, a couple of hours later, it was a lot browner but the early taste test suggests it will … Continue reading
18 June 2020
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Playing with Colour
I was short on time today so my direct watercolour was just that- playing with some colours and how they flow into each other without taking the time to make it a painting of anything in particular other than an … Continue reading
7 June 2020
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Purple Rose Green
While I was painting this, I did have a landscape idea in mind and, if you rotate anti-clockwise, it is easy to read sky, trees, etc. However, it was really just playing around with the watercolour paper, which arrived today, … Continue reading
29 December 2019
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Remembrance 2019
Here is another of my recent(ish) sketches. Thorpe Acre church was originally built in the mid-19th century as a fairly small and simple structure. In the mid-1980s, it was substantially expanded to meet the needs of a growing congregation. Here, … Continue reading