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Trogir – a painting a day
I am in Trogir which is pretty enough to double for Venice in Dr Who. Here is my first sketch. The only other thing to say is that it is extremely hot. Off to an island for a swim.
#103 a painting a day on holiday
Blue sky without vapour trails, birch tree in Ashdown Forest – a painting a day
11”x9″ 27cm x 22.5cm pen and wash on heavyweight Fabriano paper
The most beautiful day, well it was until we had the “what are we doing today, children?” conversation.
However from the morass of argument, sulks, fines for swearing and general teenage nihilism we hit upon a trip to Tunbridge Wells, buying of new bigger climbing shoes, lunch and then a climb on the sandstone rocks nearby.
As I do not climb rocks for pleasure it left me free to do a sketch, I did better I did two, one in charcoal and one in pen and wash.
Rounded the day off with Doctor Who and I have to say it’s high time the Daleks came in pink.
The birch tree was even taller and thinner than in the picture it continued down, but the best bit was this bit against the sky. There are so many tiny branches on trees like this that it would be madness to try and paint them all so I have tried to get an impression of busyness.
Alison
#24 a painting a day by Alison Warner on her lemon a day art blog
Baobabs – a painting a day
5″x4″ 12.5cm x 11cm etching print on heavyweight rag paper
Sorry, that was rather a murky photo yesterday.
Have got back from away. Shropshire is absolutely lovely and travelling through Warwickshire there are so many things to see, it’s always the way when you travel enticing views and buildings flash by, a baroque church, an old tower that looked like the space shuttle, a powder blue cottage with mullion windows ,medieval black and white cottages and town houses stooping over the road. You always mean to return and have a better look sometime but…
I cannot believe how many red kites I saw from the car, seven going and ten going back plus several buzzards and on Tuesday evening two dippers in the river at Ludlow.
It was a perfect week to travel everything a spring requires was there in abundance on the roadside, blackthorn, primroses, cowslips and daffodils planted in the town and along the motorway in places.
It was an area I had not been to since I walked from Malvern to Ludlow as a student. Then Ludlow was beautiful but not fashionable and there were Georgian houses on the road up to the castle on sale for £10,000-£12,000, which although out of reach even once I got my first job was similar to the price of terraces elsewhere, Cemetery Junction even(the same one as in the new film).
The garden is changed even after such a short time away, daffodils finishing tulips coming in pieris coming into leaf.
Alison
#22 a painting a day by Alison Warner on her lemon a day art blog
The espalier apple tree, Old Farmhouse, Sussex – a painting a day
9″x11″ 22cm x 27cm watercolour on heavyweight rag paper
Today we all went out in the sunshine to visit a new garden in the National Garden Scheme, it was a good move, the garden itself is mostly new so has plenty of room to grow, in the oak timbered barn members of the family and friends played short concerts, there were very good cakes with tea or squash. All in all it was a really different day, the music was delightful, the garden interesting and the whole thing so friendly.
Caspian who has made the garden what it is, and is expanding it, kindly gave me permission to do a drawing there. I got a little bit over ambitious for the time I had ….i.e. the length of my sons’ patience + the time taken to eat cake and then a biscuit. However they found a dog and a cat having a stand-off on the new terrace so that helped give me the time to get this far.
If you want a taste of the garden look at www.musicmindspirit.org
I will post this tonight but I reserve the right to go back to it and rework it, this is my normal working practice but there has not been the time to do it today. I will repost it reworked if that works out.
Update: I’ve reposted a reworked version now, adding more detail to the tree
Alison
#17 a painting a day by Alison Warner on her lemon a day art blog
Lemon a day 
