Monday, August 30, 2010

Bath Marathon II Day 9 and 10 (The First 100)

These are the final shots that make up my first 100! All glory be God for the ability, health and divine inspiration! I'm looking forward to my next trip in September. I have also learned a bit more from this trip which I'll share with you, some pitfalls and things one just must do!



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89-A guy passed by and stopped, he was a bit amazed, he said, "what you are painting is better than the real thing....but why do you need to be doing this on the streets-you should be in cool money doing this...I'm really loving it." He made me laugh when he said its better than the real thing...because what he really saw was the scene from MY point of view. This is what art is all about, we as artists distill and edit reality-that's why there's no amount of technology that would take out "the good, see and paint wonders from nature"



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94-I painted this scene from Morrison's in Bath, some people went in for shopping while I had just laid in some sketchy strokes at the start, then when they came out they were shocked to see the scene looking clear!


95-I even got the Bath Rugby Training session in the cold pouring rain!



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97-It's shots like this that make me love urban sketching! It was pouring but I crunched under a bus stop and fired!


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100-YEPEEE 100!!!

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Bath Marathon II, Day 5-8

These are pictures from day 5-8. Hope you enjoy them.


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75- A couple who had lived in Bath for 40 years passed by. They said they had never seen anyone pull up an easel over Cleveland Bridge to paint River Avon!


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82- I really enjoyed this piece, the back-lighting was terrific!


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More pics of Plein air Painters at Bath, they were all taking part in the Bath Prize which ends today.


Me and Donald Holloway



David Pilgrim

Stay tuned for my final post of day 9 and 10 which capped up my first 100!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Bath Marathon II Day 1-4

This is a picture journal of the first 4 days on my 2nd Marathon in Bath! Not easy but sheer fun! Never in my life did I believe I'll be doing this,, but I thank God for my wife and two children who keep calling me and keeping me company with their jokes, stories and encouragement-when! Stay tuned more to come!


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48-That's Karl Terry, my good painting buddy, keeping me company as we knock it off till late!


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55- I was at Abbey Green Gate and a nice local chap got me a hot chocolate!


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57- This stairway from Paragon to Walcot is a paradise when the light is good, one lady while passing was quite disturbed, she wondered how I managed to bring a bit of beauty out of place she had been passing for years and only thought, it needed cleaning. Well, that's one of the roles we artists play, we make people to see beauty in common things.


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These are some pics of plein air painters in Bath-I discovered I wasn't the only one. They were in for the Bath prize which has an extended date of submission till the 28th of August


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Roy Connelly



Karl Terry