Blue and Gold

Blue and Gold, oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm

A reprise, of sorts, of 2016's Gold and Grey, this is a view from a local footpath. These distinctive trees are visible for miles around and are a welcome landmark as well as a favourite subject.

Blue and Gold

oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm

£340

Poppy Box Complete: Base

Cottington's Poppies 3 (AKA Poppy Box, on account of its deep-edged stretcher) is finally finished! I had to wait for the sides to be touch-dry before I could turn it around and paint the base, which is what you can see in the photograph above.

Poppy Box in detail

I couldn't resist sharing this one with you; there's Stormy Poppies (Cottington's Poppies 1) in the background! And you can see where I've painted (part of) the edge of the latest one, too.

Here are a few more close-ups and edge views:

Poppy Box in progress

I didn't share any in-progress shots with you on the "very-nearly-finished post" - so here they are:

Cottington's Poppy Box (Cottington's Poppies 3)

Please excuse me for posting an unfinished work.

Cottington's Poppies 2 - mini version

This was meant to be an oil painting done with a knife on a 30 x 30" box canvas. But the big box canvas hasn't arrived, so I made a miniature version instead. In acrylic, with a brush.

Cottington's Poppies - SOLD

Well, the poppies don't belong to Cottington - not as far as I know, anyhow. But that is Cottington's Hill in the background (Mr. Cottington did build a big house up there, but the house is gone, now, and the most significant structure on that hill now is the TV and radio mast that can be seen on this previous painting). No, these are wayside poppies, growing on the field margin - in this case, a wheat field.