Misty Nuthanger

Nuthangar Down is the slope coming down to the west of Watership Down. The road winds up through the pass between that hill and the one that becomes Ladle Hill in a remarkably picturesque fashion. I've often admired the wooded slopes, and, one misty morning in late September, I stopped my car to grab a few photographs.

This is a rather small rendition of one of those shots in paint.

Oil on canvas, 7 x 5"
27 November 2012
For Sale

New Forest Heather 5 - Blasted Tree

Blasted TreeFinished
(daylight)

I started off by telling myself that I was just going to do the sky... but then there was too much blue left, so I made it into green ... and purple ... and before I knew it the painting had progressed to this stage and it was way past bedtime.

In progress
(artificial light)

Oops.

It took a couple of days before I was able to find the time to work on it again, but eventually I did, and this is the result. The photography, of course, took even longer; domestic artificial light doesn't work very well with my rudimentary set-up, so I had to wait for the weekend. 


Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm
26 November 2012

Barnacle

Meet Barnacle, the Lifeboat bear. He usually sits on my car dashboard, but yesterday, during my son's guitar lesson, I let him sit on the steering wheel.

Derwent Drawing, cropped from A4

Copyright Issues: Who owns the copyright to a painting?

Let's leave aside the copyright issues that might be involved in making a painting (I touched upon those in a previous post concerning map data); what about the painting itself? (And let's simplify matters even further by only considering the UK.)

If an artist sells a painting, who owns the copyright?

Cornet in oil pastel

My son has recently started learning to play the cornet. It's a beautiful instrument - and it's rented, so, just in case it turns out to be a flash in the pan, I felt the need to make a picture of it. Oil pastels seemed like a good compromise between painterliness and time, so they got used first.

Sennelier oil pastel on Daler-Rowney oil pastel paper (A4)

Skyline

"Skyline" - new photograph, taken in daylight

There's a lovely ridge very near here where the field sweeps up to a horizon that plays host to a number of trees. It's a subject I keep eyeing up from the footpath, and I have a large collection of photographs of it in all seasons. This painting is based on a photograph taken one evening in July, with the wheat almost ripe and the sky ominously laden with cloud.

Bromley Tetraptych Edges

	It occurred to me that, while I took the photographs a while back, I haven't shown you the edges of the Bromley  Four (that's the East Street Tetraptych). So here they are. Clockwise from top: tops, rights, bottoms and lefts.