Summer in the garden is an oil painting celebrating the abundance of flowers and plants in this year's garden.
Painting during the heatwave and alla prima.
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| 186. Summer in the garden 10 x 8 in / 25.3 x 20.3 cm oil on board 23rd June 2026 |
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| Photo taken at the end of the painting session |
On this day I carried on my exploration of colours and values with two tiny studies.
The first one is Summer clothesline, featuring my the clothesline seen from my garden. I do love painting colour shapes that closely do not mean much but seen from a certain distance they create the image I was trying to portray.
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| 185. Summer clothesline 7 x 5 in / 17.7 x 12.6 cm oil on canvas board 22nd June 2026 |
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| 186. View to the kitchen 7 x 5 in / 17.7 x 12.6 cm oil on board 22nd June 2026 |
Soft and rounded afternoon clouds, Varteg hill is a studio oil painting.
Started from an unfinished pencil sketch in the car and finished in the studio with oil paint on board.
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| 184. Soft and rounded afternoon clouds, Varteg hill Oil on board 7.9 x 12 in / 20.3 x 30.5 cm 16th June 2026 |
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| Soft and rounded afternoon clouds, Varteg hill painting on the easel in her studio |
This is a painting from life that was a flop.
I was not completely happy with that and so I retouched it in the studio. Mistake!!!
Lesson: if it is a painting from life, do not work on it from memory and feelings of the day after. Take it out again in front of the real subject instead.
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| 183. Climbing roses- failed Oil on board 15th June 2026 |
I forgot to take my brushes with me, so I painted with fingers, twigs and leaves.
A nice and unexpected challenge I really enjoyed in Ystradfawr Nature Reserve.
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| 182. Sheep in Ystradfawr Oil on canvas board 7 x 5 in / 17.7 x 12.6 cm 8th June 2026 |
This is a painting made in the studio and it features the canal walk we used to have when we lived near the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal in Llanover, Wales.
I was attracted by the light and reflections created by the sunshine and it shows a lush vegetation I really love.
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| 181. Canal Walk Oil on board 9.9 x 12 in / 25.2 x 30.5 cm 6th June 2026 |
A second day of oil studies in the garden with further different colour palettes.
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| 179. Garden study 3 Oil on paper 30th May 2026 |
The first study of the day is featuring my climbing roses in the garden. Some unusual colours to mix the paint for this study.
The second study is about the same flower pots of yesterday but with a different colour palette and with the strong light snd shadow.
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| 180. Garden study 4 Oil on paper 30th May 2026 |
In this day I finally inaugurated my new painting setup: the 12x9-inch easel and 16-inch panel holder by DayBreak Easel, and my carbon-fibre tripod by K&F Concept.
As experimenting is fun and makes you learn new things, I decided to use different a colour palette to try different colour mixing.
The first study is on the top left and it depicts part of my garden and the sky.
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| 177. Garden study 1 Oil on paper 29th May 2026 |
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| 178. Garden study 2 Oil on paper 29th May 2026 |
