tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post7018623898743084087..comments2023-06-29T13:13:47.293+02:00Comments on A sketch in time: A Holiday to rememberCathy Gatlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05004501411878060668noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-76502354690578458652008-06-06T20:20:00.000+02:002008-06-06T20:20:00.000+02:00Thank you Jana, Laura and Katherine - I think it's...Thank you Jana, Laura and Katherine - I think it's quite brave to go on your own on a painting holiday - and prior investigation very necessary...Cathy Gatlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004501411878060668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-34704979506792841022008-06-06T09:09:00.000+02:002008-06-06T09:09:00.000+02:00Cathy - this is one of the nicest paintings of pai...Cathy - this is one of the nicest paintings of painters done on a painting holiday that I've ever seen!Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-86807175450701161472008-06-05T15:27:00.000+02:002008-06-05T15:27:00.000+02:00How wonderful to have sisters to paint with; I rea...How wonderful to have sisters to paint with; I really envy you! I've taken a couple of painting holidays, but I always go alone! Of course, I always meet lovely people when I get there, but ... I agree with Adam: the palette with painting is charming!laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11999450626008299190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-19221417049099769532008-06-05T00:42:00.000+02:002008-06-05T00:42:00.000+02:00What a wonderful moving story and your watercolor ...What a wonderful moving story and your watercolor is delightful. I read Katherine's post with much interest and it brought back memories of a disaster of an expensive painting holiday/workshop I attended last year. If only I'd seen her post previous to signing up. Yours sounded perfect!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-71026536932445592672008-06-04T15:31:00.000+02:002008-06-04T15:31:00.000+02:00I did one post in August last year - A Holiday in ...I did one post in August last year - A Holiday in France - http://asketchintime.blogspot.com/2007/08/here-are-some-pages-from-my-journal-i.html (sorry - don't know how to make a link in the comments!) from my first ever sketch/travel journal... if I could do it over, after seeing a lot of other journals, it would have much more in it!...I might find some of the watercolours I did and post them..? Some of them were awful!Cathy Gatlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004501411878060668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-54004987077087503892008-06-04T14:32:00.000+02:002008-06-04T14:32:00.000+02:00This is such a lovely paitnign Cathy and how I env...This is such a lovely paitnign Cathy and how I envey your for sharing a peinting holiday with your sisters!! Why don' you post some of the entries and paintings and food experiences(!) you did then...would love to see them..as well as those of your sisters'.<BR/>ronellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-71614867088529000722008-06-02T08:02:00.000+02:002008-06-02T08:02:00.000+02:00Thanks for stopping by, Kathy - will have a good l...Thanks for stopping by, Kathy - will have a good look at your blog later today, looks like there's some lovely work on it too!Cathy Gatlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004501411878060668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-70668705079952017032008-06-02T03:45:00.000+02:002008-06-02T03:45:00.000+02:00Hi Cathy, just followed this painting from Adam Co...Hi Cathy, just followed this painting from Adam Cope's blog. I really love it and the rest of your paintings on your blog, too. ;)Kathy Jurekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00927931125884267524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-91064103626385056482008-05-28T11:36:00.000+02:002008-05-28T11:36:00.000+02:00Hi there... home and hosed, and happy to see the h...Hi there... home and hosed, and happy to see the honeysuckle looking so good. I wish I had got a nice orange for you in that art shop. I see I have not posted anything for a month. Perhaps my future is more as a model??! (nah).<BR/>Say hi to Phoebe, Gillian. What a dynamo!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10002012531162874560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-11901332701517721552008-05-28T10:22:00.000+02:002008-05-28T10:22:00.000+02:00salutations à cathy en sud afriquethank you so muc...salutations à cathy en sud afrique<BR/><BR/>thank you so much for your kind words. i'm glad you all enjoyed your holiday. you know, for me, it really is a pleasure to see people enjoying themselves on holiday. it was fun :-)<BR/><BR/>now, that painting of yours of Vivienne is wonderful! done from photo... this is not something i know a lot about, so i'm always fishing for 'tips' when i see someone do it so well.<BR/><BR/>question : did you put a fine wash of transparent yellow down first that gives that wonderful warm timbre to the light? i can see the warm southern sunlight of the dordogne in this picture. no doubt you coming from the southern latitudes of south africa are instantly more at ease in the southern light than people coming from more northerly latitudes. to re-create this from a photo is no small feat; your knowledge of light & colour are 'filling-in' this type of vital information that a photo rarely gives (the gamut of colours is smaller in photography than in the real world & the camera records them in a way that i find foreign to my perception of the world).<BR/><BR/>the tonality on the umbrella is masterful. i guess not being a in rush whilst out in the field 'plein-air', allows for a cooler, more deliberate & more planned approach. to lay a violet-based shadow wash over a bright, pure yellow .... (the shadow did go over the yellow stripes or visa versa? difficult to tell from a jpeg of a painting - though i can see that the green are classic 'dark over light').look what 'colour interest' the sparkling bright yellows give in the dappled light on the under-side of the umbrella! great that you resisted the urge to fill-in the little empty 'gaps' in some of the washes such as on the back-side of the easel ... these are important,imo, as they carry through the dappled colour light sparkle. <BR/><BR/>great shapes - you aren't scared of blocking-in with a brush<BR/><BR/>Vivienne is a trooper to hold so many oil brushes in her hand & her posture is so strong & in the shoulders. very concentrated! i love looking at details like this in paintings of painters painting; they capture the magic of the moment, the pleasure of 'being there' & being alongside other painters painting.<BR/><BR/>i did laugh out loud upon seeing your sketch-book page of in this post, the one with the swimming ducks & the palette lay-out. i never expected that a palette lay-out diagram could have such a funny 'insert' image posed inside the middle of it!! (do you pissaro's pallete with the painting inside it?) ha ha - three painters taking tea on the old school bench, lol. happy days. the pleasure of meeting other people :-) you have a good eye for incidental detail & capturing the magic of the moment.<BR/><BR/>with your consent, i would love to put the pair up on my blog. but just a pedantic word here, if i may... what are the sizes of these two paintings? it's terribly difficult to have a real appreciation if one hasn't the sizes written underneath the jpeg...( you had to have one piece of negative criticism, didn't you?;)<BR/><BR/>paint on.<BR/>best<BR/>adamAdam Copehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00597553517593344369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-67594313748374717112008-05-27T22:00:00.000+02:002008-05-27T22:00:00.000+02:00Thanks - I corrected those mistakes - am relieved ...Thanks - I corrected those mistakes - am relieved to know its only 2, not 3 years! Did you take this photo? - I took a few of V painting too, but think it was with her camera...Cathy Gatlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004501411878060668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859449716295663213.post-71964308925448632702008-05-27T20:21:00.000+02:002008-05-27T20:21:00.000+02:00Oh what happy memories...! I painted the same pho...Oh what happy memories...! I painted the same photo yesterday - see my blog, I posted it but its not finished. Yours is SUPERB (French accent here!) I won't have time to work on mine till we get back from Savannah next week. I'll talk to you on the phone about the grassy background that is bugging me...<BR/>P.S. Out trip was almost TWO year ago, and Phoebe lives in New Mexico, not Arizona - I think??!! I'm going to email her and tell her to look at your blog...Gillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994846953739263248noreply@blogger.com