Sometimes I like to create small paintings which I can then use as greetings cards for nearest and dearest. I did this one for a family member.

Painted En Plein Air at Milton Country Park. To see more paintings like this, visit my website www.davidwoodfineart.com

 

Painting sunrises in Oil Paint

It’s impossible to predict how the landscape will look and what you will encounter, when you go out plein air painting, you have to be prepared for anything. Especially the case with sunrises; will there be too much cloud cover, that you don’t see anything at all?

 

All you can do is just turn up prepared, that’s a good attitude to have for lots of things. I was fortunate in this case that there was some cloud cover to provide some beautiful some interesting shapes in the sky. I even had two friendly horses come over to see what I was doing, sadly I had no carrots or apples, I offered to paint them a carrot, but they weren’t impressed by that. 

The sun kept me warm, while it was rising, although it was difficult to paint contre-jour. 

Clouds did eventually cover the sky and what was a beautiful sunrise, illuminating the land before it, soon was covered in grey clouds and fog; which has its own appeal.

***Postcard Originals***

What are Postcard Originals?
They are something new, Original works of art, painted by me, done to postcard size (17cm x 12.5cm. Original Art, postcard size. All £30.00 each. Message me to purchase

Cambridge Rower in Pencil and Watercolor.

Circus, Cambridge in Pencil and Watercolour.