A quick sketch of the chaos of the kitchen garden weeds. I took a limited range of colours and an even more limited range of brushes ( forgot to take one), but had a knife, fingers and a few pastels.

Louise Balaam - Monthly Landscape Painting

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July 7, 2024

← ashdown moor as seen over l. balaams shoulder….by GERRY STEVENS. A painting I’ve had sitting about for a while now – 80x60cm oil canvas board . I tried using much thinner oil paint and paint in layers (eurgh, waiting for layers to dry but not really sure if I need to wait for them to dry). I think I like the colour tones of the stormy sky and the concentration of glowing light in the centre – but you can probably see that I really didn’t know what to do with the foreground – at the time it was barely visible in teh lowering light. My instinct was to leave the foreground indistinct to draw the eye to the lowering sun, light flooding the field & the drama of those clouds. But… →

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Karen Gunn on July 20, 2024 at 6:48 am

Thank you Rachel…I’m liking wilder!!
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Rachel O’M on July 18, 2024 at 11:31 pm

I really like this one!
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Louise Balaam on July 8, 2024 at 8:05 am

I really like this Karen, it’s abstracted but the colour choice gives that landscape feel. A lovely range of lively marks too
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Karen Gunn on July 7, 2024 at 3:15 pm

Forgot to say that this is acrylic and pastel
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